The Book of Eli

[Feanor]

There is a difference between Christians and people who call themselves Christians. The majority of people in the U.S. call themselves Christians, the term has obviously become to be used very loosely. Hyfi, is correct, you take the Bible as a whole or not at all. God loves every one as He is no respecter of persons, He is also love, but only those who are obedient to God's word will inherit heaven according to the Bible. The path is narrow to heaven yet wide to distruction. If you believe He is love you also have to believe He destroyed the world by flood due to the lack of righteousness in the world. That's the problem today is too many cherry pick from the Bible and create their own religion. There is a pattern in the Bible for Christians and if you don't fit it then you aren't one no matter what you call yourself.

Does an atheist get equal preaching time here?

I'm more or less one of those "New Atheists" who are't not content to quitely and discretely tolerate religion. Religion is not merely the harmless aberration of quite a few people willing to put myth above reality, it's the single most divisive and destructive force in the world today, (as it generally has been through history). Yes, I will tell people they should not believe but be skeptics.

Some say the problem is organized religion or the manipulation of true religion by self-serving cynics. But it's not: it's the willingness of people to believe humbug because it makes them feel good, (righteous or whatever). What hope for a world full of people willing to believe "received wisdom" without putting it to the test of evidence and reason? Not much.

We need to get our heads around the fact that the world here-and-now is what we have to work with. It's up to us and us on our own, not "with God's help", to make the best of it.

[Troy]

We won't survive as a species unless we can put all religion behind us. Period.