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American citizens on American soil suspected of terrorism, no longer have the right to habeas corpus. And since terrorist suspects are evil, no one complains.

False, the states could have a state religion (and many did). The federal government couldn't though. It was only later that states lost most of their rights including to have a state religion. State religion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In the 1947 case of Everson v. Board of Education...

I know a little tiny bit about God. Probably much less than 1%. But that's probably still more than atheists know. Isaiah 55:9 “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. Job 9:10 He performs wonders that cannot be...

Unfortunately, I am among the many that don't know. Perhaps BondiHarry could help us.

Does this mean that there is a specific right that would be violated by someone's not giving to charity? Certainly giving to charity is good, but how does the goodness of giving to charity relate to rights?

Not only that, but most people don't even know which are the denominations that, as you said, "have strayed from God and allowed the corruptions of man and Satan to enter their beliefs". At least the separation of church and state prevents these corrupt denominations from spreading their...

Could you give me an example of any living human who's right to free will has been taken from him (note that I don't believe corpses have a right to free will, I'm talking about rights of living humans)? Since I don't believe that anyone has the right to physical eternal life, an example of...

If only people would stop complaining about the problems with evolution, as if that would accomplish anything, and actually start trying to find a more predictive theory so that we could actually get rid of evolution in favor of the more predictive theory. I mean, we already know almost for...

The question is why you're insulting a member of Christian Forums, rather than quoting where he said what you're pretending he said. I mean, one of these would prove your point beyond any shadow of doubt, the other ....

Work for reducing the deficit by any significant amount. I give up. How could Bill Gates increase the tax rate on his income group (that's what I assume he meant by his not paying enough taxes)? If you want to interpret it the incredibly unlikely way as that Bill Gates is personally not paying...

Notice how none of those are a dichotomy? Hence if any of those are presented as a dichotomy, it would be a false dichotomy because of not being a dichotomy even though presented as though it were one.

The Nicene Creed plus agreeing that homosexuality and premarital sex are bad. At least that's what the rules say -- I suppose it wouldn't make much difference if the site was owned by a Muslim or whatever; the rules that get enforced (and whatever collective biases of the people enforcing the...

Why would any sane person agree to the elimination of [we'll determine what we're going to eliminate later]? It can't be eliminated until we define it, so why not define it first so we know what we're agreeing to eliminate? Complain all you like that some people want to know what they'd be...

Then you would agree with the priests of YAHWEH, that blasphemers like Jesus, and heretics that teach His blasphemy as doctrine, should be eliminated? I still think you should first figure out what is heresy and what isn't, before you claim to be against (someone's determination of what is)...

As I understand it, this is standard practice for small businesses. If you own a business, anything you can legitimately claim as a business expense tends to get deducted, such as transportation (car, gas, repairs, insurance), business meetings (aka eating at a restaurant), and depending on your...

My money says "In God we trust" on it. Who should I give it to?

Perhaps so, but unless it is answered any attempt at eliminating heresy could instead result in eliminating the truth in favor of heresy. Alternately, one can focus on a very limited subset of heresies that are particularly unpopular or obvious.

I will agree with you that live cats have rights that dead cats do not. So long as it is alive, the cat has free will, no? But no one has a right to eternal life.

Yes, either which particular things constitute heresy, or which church/religious system to measure against when deciding if something is heresy or not.

Other: first we need to be able to agree as to what is heresy and what is sound doctrine.