jaybird18c

What kind of DNA is there?

Opinions are like assholes…like the one you evolved.

I guess however you have to justify it to sit right with your conscience.

Is it generalizing to say that people who commit murder are in fact murderers?

Who says that? You? There you go, generalizing again.

Dehumanizing people makes torturing and killing them much easier, as demonstrated by the Nazis and many others.

If you want to live in a state which allows killing babies, move to Kalifornia. Problem solved...for you, that is. Not so much for the baby.

I was just using the same verbiage as Kallend in my response about representative government. He used the word imposed.

I should have worded that differently. I differentiate knowing from belief, in the context of what we're speaking. Belief implies obedience. Knowledge is just that. In that sense, I once did not believe. I have always had a sense, as I shared in my personal testimony earlier, that there must be a God. However, I was absolutely not obedient to that knowledge. As a matter of fact, I suppressed it. I did not "believe" in the biblical sense. There is "Common Grace" and "Special Grace" which exist with God. "Common Grace" allows for the rain, if you will, to fall on both non-believers and believers alike, including enjoyment of creation, restraint by God on the effect of sin, delayed judgment, general knowledge of "a god," etc.) "Special Grace" is specific, in the knowledge of the person and work of Jesus Christ described in scripture. It demands not just knowledge, but obedience.

I expanded on my thought above. Sorry about that. I believe decisions should be made democratically within our representative form of government. If you look at it the other way around, there are states in which very non-Christian principals are applied and "forced on believers," as you put it. That's America. Vote wisely!

I believe our republic should function constitutionally, as founded. "Separation of Church & State," is a principal, not in the Constitution, but that I agree with. I do not think that the church should dictate policy. That is theocratic. Separation of Church & State, however, does not mean removal of Christianity from government. Elected leaders are absolutely able to and should let their religious and moral beliefs (e.g. conscience) inform their decisions.

Do you speak for all "atheists" with your definition, because you referenced "feelings?"

"Unfathomable mystery." You don't possess all knowledge... I agree... So...you're...agnostic? I can respect that!

Is ISIS correct in their theology and do they represent all of Islam?

Well...it could have been, and I think it was, that at the time, I didn't fully understand the meaning of the word. However, the word atheist is many times thrown around kind of casually. If you insist on being strict about it in order to justify your saying I "have no basis for understanding a conversation on this topic" because of a single word you read, I'll ask you this. Do you possess all knowledge?