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Mr Gillis

An unimpeachable opinion. Thank you for your wisdom.

I do not believe in God, and you do, but you expressed an approach that is humane and fair and respectful for all, believers or not.

Chester's essay begs the question, as does Huckabee original statement.

If gods do not exist, (a reasonable assumption given that not a single one has ever been proven to actually exist), then there are no standards of gods. All standards are therefore man made. How can something that does not exist have standards?

You can say that again -Americans do not subscribe to Christianity, and even for those who do, differences of interpretation complicate attempts to know “Gods standards.”
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Oh, about 42 million believe the being in the burning bush was the biggest Devil of them all, Lucifer. Huck and all the others pandering to the evangelicals needs to have "their feet held to the fire" by demanding they come with some evidence to the contrary. Don't you think?

I'm sure you know but, http://www.hoax-buster.org/sellyoursoul says that was Lucifer in the burning bush, the supernatural being Moses made the deal with. No one has yet to show that finding is in error in spite of many requests. Therefore it must be so, the God that one nation is under is really the Devil, Lucifer.

As an educated man of the cloth you must know that if that is so, Lucifer and not God in the burning bush, everyone who recites the pledge and assumes the being in the burning bush when saying the word God commits the only deadly sin, blasphemy.

Doesn't Huck et al have an obligation to inform the public about what we are doing when pledging allegiance to the flag? I'm sorry. Forgot that the big money, high office etc goes to those leading the multitudes to hell, like it did for Moses. So we can't ever expect that, an honest answer can we?

Sorry I mentioned it.

The real problem with squaring "god's standards" with our Constitution is that our Constitution demands a higher righteousness than that offered by any religion or their gods, including that offered by the Xian version.

Our American culture is founded on the Rights of Man, with the power and authority of the government based upon the consent of the governed. In their wisdom, our Founders allowed that future generations of Americans would be able to amend the "standards" that they put in place, as long as said amendments didn't violate the basic tenets of the Constitution.

God's standard - any god's standards - are set in stone and are at best whimsical, at worst, maniacal and destructive. Simply put, god's standards are piss-poor standards, especially when set against the higher righteousness of our founding documents, which are documents, standards and righteousness conceived by, written by and for the governing of men BY men, not gods.

Which god are we discussing here?

I like Apollo myself. What a Hunk!
And Thor is also pretty macho.
But I'm not so sure of the noname old white bearded god,
or allah either. I think they were made up by people
who didn't like believing in Apollo.
But Moonman is my fave.

Go Moonman go.

Which god are we discussing here?

I like Apollo myself. What a Hunk!
And Thor is also pretty macho.
But I'm not so sure of the noname old white bearded god,or allah either. I think they were made up by people who didn't like believing in Apollo.
But Moonman is my fave.

Go Moonman go.

I don't think it's so much, as Huckabee says, that we are trying to change the Christian god's standards, it's that the Christian god just doesn't carry the weight he used to. Simply put: the Christian god's standards are irrelevant to an ever-growing portion of the country.

Amen.

Amen.