Danny, it seems like you mean well (as I gather through what seems to be some language translation loss), although your comments freely mix relatively normal concessions that most of us are happy enough to make ("Don't have teachers physically punish students") with very extreme ones ("Good for us for posting naked pictures of children on the Internet"). One of these is accepted as an improvement to our culture by about 90% of the civilized Western World, and the other is accepted by virtually nobody as a tolerable act.
Also, you lay very specific blame on certain groups of people (non-theists, the media, people who don't send religious e-mail chain letters) for God's punishment of humanity. Even if you feel you have a very strong moral backbone, you are not God, and you have no further insight into His great plan of life and death than anyone else does. Many of the people who oppose the spanking of children are still religious, and "accept God over Satan." Many of the people who are entertained by movies showing sex or violence feel the same way. Many homosexuals are also religious. There are people who do not apply to their lives the same burden of Christian morality (as you or Reverend Graham may interpret the Bible to mean such) as you do who nonetheless are not practicing "Satanism."
It might be best for you to let God judge who has failed His tests, rather than your mortal, incomplete interpretation of this.
Third, the people on this site mostly believe in reason, law, ethics, wisdom and accountability, but do not see things (necessarily) from a perspective that these are endowed to the world by some mythical, infallible God whose Word is the only meter with which to judge the value of our culture. This is a debating forum--we tackle many political, social, cultural, economic and other issues. But there can be no edifying debate on an issue such as God, whereby people who believe in Him will never be swayed to think otherwise, and will never see the world in any different way than what they consider the unarguable Gospel Truth. Indeed, this is not a good forum for you, if you are looking for people to automatically accept many of the principles that you apparently find sovereign.
I am not in favor of this post being removed from the site just because it disagrees with the typical point of view here. There are many things about it that I find disturbing and/or borne from several levels of cultural tone-deafness (meandering at times toward outright ignorance), but we shouldn't censor him any more so than we censor conspiracy theorists, "trolls", people who don't find Ana hot, etc. And since people are obviously free to post their views on more than one blogsite/forum, and a lot of our posts are paste jobs from other sources, I don't regard this as SPAM either. Other than his site, and Christianity itself, I guess, he isn't selling any commodity.
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Milltycoon on
07/16/2009 09:48:10 AM EST