For years Muslim organizations have been demanding sharia law in their communities. It’s going to work out swell for them when we go to community policing; “Is that a can of beer in your backpack? 20 lashes!”
The beauty of our justice system is that we are all equal before the law. We used to call our nation Judeo-Christian, we used to display the Ten Commandments in our courthouses, we used to pray in public schools. We got rid of those things. We’ve made a religion out of social issues. Our young people are longing for God, and they don’t know it.
Europeans were shocked when their offspring joined ISIS. But it made sense: Take away the God of forgiveness and redemption, and a savage deity who demands stoning and amputation fills the vacuum.
In America, we are denouncing our loved ones if they don’t think right. We need to return to the God of mercy; we need to start praying, if we could only remember how.
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If god exists, he doesn’t give a damn about us. If he did, we wouldn’t be in the mess we are in. If he doesn’t exist, it doesn’t matter. We are in the mess we are in. There is no magic sky daddy that is going to come to save us from ourselves. Whatever happens, it is up to us to make it happen.
The ultimate get out of jail card for god: we mere mortals cannot conceive of god’s plan for us so we must, on faith, believe whatever happens is god’s will. This works for both existent gods and non-existent gods. See previous paragraph.
Like it or not, we are on our own.
It’s a free country, you can believe whatever you want to believe – or not, as you chose. …At least, that’s what they used to say…
But… our constitution and our laws were based on the Judeo-Christian ‘belief’ in the 10 commandments.
It was once a free country but that does not make your belief well founded. You are free to have your opinions but you are not free to have your facts. Facts are facts without respect to your opinions or belief.
I can prove that it is impossible to prove a thing does not exist. Only existent things have attributes and behaviors. A non-existent thing does not. To prove is to demonstrate the OBJECTIVE attributes and behaviors of the thing asserted to exist. Without that demonstration, “belief” is not justified.
Since, in the hundred thousands of years of “belief” in supernatural beings (gods, goddesses, demons, devils, et.al.), this proof has not been provided except by assertion and reference to an unsubstantiated authority. It is not just circular reasoning (assuming what is to be proved) it is tornado reasoning where the circles spin ever faster. Thus “belief” in the Christian god and his word is not justified.
As for the ten commandments, without PROOF of GOD, the first four are non functional and the remainder mostly don’t apply to the real world without specifying full context very carefully.
Amen.