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The Bible says that the world knows what love is. Jesus says that the world will know his own for the love they have for one another. This wouldn't be possible if the world didn't understand what love means. So, this line of reasoning is not in the line of what Jesus teaches.

If you find Donald Trumps public behavior to be pretty much average, I wouldn't want to hang around with the crowd you do.

Why we're talking about atheists here when the most well known public campaign to promote moral relativism during the last year came from Christian pastors and leaders. Their motto being "There are no good choices, so choose the (perceived) lesser of two evils!". Choosing lesser of two evils is...

In my experience, while there doesn't seem to be very much difference to the lifestyle of religious and non-religious people, what seems to be the case is that all non-religious people tend to be more consistent in what they claim to do and what they actually do. Religious people more often...

Sure. Here: Note what I said about it: Do you recognize the pattern? The culture I was referring to happens like this: Someone gives an arbitrary, subjective meaning for the word "Christian" and then goes on to tell everyone who doesn't want to obey that arbitrary definition that they're...

I recommend some day talking to an atheist instead of believing what Fox News says about atheists. "Most of them" - Please, name any publicly known atheist and quote how this person considers Islam to be better than Christianity. I bet that for anyone you can name, I can find at least two who...

Really? You do sound a lot like a protestant Christian though, as one of the trademarks of protestantism is to be eager to tell other people that they are not real Christians. Seemingly you are trying to apply this line of belittling to people outside your own religion too. I recognize the...

Could, but maybe not would. Why not Quran instead? Or some lesser known holy book? Or why would God even bother to author a holy book that majority of the human race during it's history has not even ever had a chance to read? Maybe God could also write his message in the laws of the nature, for...

Claiming the existence of absolute morality and divine revelation doesn't change any of the power dynamics in human world. OP suggests that to be the case, I disagreed. We can vote for what is our situational morality, likewise, we can vote for what is the divine revelation. In human world, the...

That's what the powerful men who came on the top of the power struggle say. Isn't it quite logical, that they would say just this, to justify their dirty methods for getting the final word by saying it was God's will?

Who decides what's God's will and what books to include in the holy canons etc that will tell us God's will? I'm glad it's not the strongest guy, who gets to ally with the emperors and kings who in turn banish the heretics! No wait, that's how went...

Right-wingers are just as politically correct as left-wingers, but in different topics. For examples: - Bill Maher called US troops doing missile strikes cowards. Politically correct right-wingers got their feelings hurt and his show was canceled. - This year, Fox News guys said that "Jesus...

That would actually be perfectly politically correct, if you happen to be right-wing.

Unless numbers are provided I'm going to assume this to be politically motivated propaganda with no basis in reality. I have a challenge: Name a single scientist (preferably a biologist) who doesn't believe in evolution and also does not have religious background, but have ended up to the...

As far as the new atheist - movement is concerned, it's undoubtedly Islam. Richard Dawkins: "I regard Islam as one of the great evils in the world, and I fear that we have a very difficult struggle there.”...

I see. I went the wrong way in time with my speculations then. :) I didn't think of those guys as really early theologians, but I guess I am rather biased by Protestantic bible-centric approach to Christian theology. My problem is really with Jesus and the Bible. It took me very long time to...

I watched 1,5 minutes, and I can already say that this is not an educational video, it's a propaganda piece, meant to scare people with a boogieman huge government. The way I see the key difference between the left and the right: Right = There are two actors in the stage, individual and the...

There is a huge "patriotism gap" between Europe and US for sure. But, still the one thing I often wonder about the hyper-patriotic Americans, is that are these people who go like "We have the free speech so therefore we're above everyone else and the most superior democratic country in the...

I was mostly speculating, answering to what @Silmarien said about early theologians. It's not personally that important to me whether the early texts are well preserved or not, as I am free to disagree with the Bible about the nature of God, so it was rather random speculation from my part. As...

You demonstrate quite well here what is somewhat unique phenomenon for Christianity, in my eyes. First: Then: It's this double talk about it at the same time being only about believing in Jesus, and then the next moment it isn't anymore only about faith but works too, that I find to be...