Why do some people want Christians restricted to the four walls of the church building or a 2X2 square on college campuses?

It's nothing more than censoring free speech. If you don't want to read the posts skip them. How hard is that?

Never figured you for a snowflake. Faith and Christianity have never been able to be kept in a box. Prayer was kicked out of schools, has civility improved or gotten worse? Have fatherless homes grown or been reduced? Unplanned pregnancies? Drugs? Abortion? Murder rate? Politics? Love for one another? Divorce? Hollywood? Prisons? Are children safer? Check any stat since prayer and faith were put in a box to today's stats.

We kicked out the salt and light and things have become rotten. We may have the most powerful country since creation but we're losing our moral foundations. If the foundation fails so does all the rest. Just look at what happens to nations throughout history who have turned away from God. Death, destruction, exile, and people suffer and die horrible deaths and lose their freedoms. I prefer to be blessed rather than cursed. That's all. Why do the heathen rage? They love darkness and evil, light is a great disinfectant.

Faith and Christianity should always be on the main menu. IMHO. Reread your pocket Constitution. Wheat and tares always grow side by side and so do sheep and goats. When both are fully grown, then the judgment. If that message angers or scares you, you can always change or fast forward through the commercial. Be well, my friend. Freedom is messy at times but let freedom ring. Nothing scary about the Ten Commandments. It's kind of like a mirror. It shows our faults and where we fall short.

Agreed...

It's sad that we are forced to read and respond to every post on a thread...
If only we had the free will to ignore a post...
Why we could skip right past it...

Perhaps if enough of us complain to Admin they will institute this option....

Love the idea of excommunicating people from the site

Might need to perform an exorcism for Singularity

Don't want to be hasty though... Perhaps we should see if she floats first... Might just call for a good oldfashion burning

God has only one name, it is the Hebrew tetragammaton--4 consonants that are non pronounceable as they stand. The Hebrew vowels were added in order to pronounce His name. In English the tetragammaton is YHWH. Means "I am who I am." Moses is the only prophet to whom God revealed His name. (Exodus 3), Elohim, Adonai, El, El Shaddai, and so on are titles, not proper names. Elohim, for example, simply means God or Lord. God and Lord are titles. When these titles are given in the Bible, they must be taken in context. Yahweh is how you pronounce His name. His only name.

I was born Catholic, raised Baptist and grew up devoutly religious; saved, born again, and a frequent leader of the Sunday evening service at our church. Today, I am agnostic.

Former church-mates of mine are quite certain that I could not have been sincere if I am truly agnostic today. I have assured them, and now you, that I was as sincere then as I am now and I am as sincere as I can possibly be.

There may be a God, I don’t know, but the characterizations of God currently celebrated on planet Earth are pure fiction in my view.

Why do I say such a thing? Firstly, if God can truly do anything, why would He design a universe that cannibalizes itself at every level. Why would any omnipotent being create a system in which His greatest creations can only exist by destroying His other creations? The sadism in that design says nothing positive about a universal creator.

Secondly, if God is truly omniscient, knows all, past, present, future, He would have known from the very beginning of the pain and terror felt by every prey species and every mistreated child throughout the history of His Creations. Once again, the sadism in that behavior says nothing positive about such a universal creator.

Thirdly, if God really is omnipresent as advertised, He is an ever-present witness to all of the pain and agony, torture and death, loss and grief that He has designed into His creations. Finally, the sadism in that voyeuristic proposition says nothing positive about such a universal creator.

I do not object to anyone’s personal beliefs so long as they remain personal. I do not discourage any from their beliefs. I don’t know if it is possible to exist as a society without some omnipotent father figure somewhere in the mix. The current devaluation of the strong father archetype is having some very unfortunate and profound impacts on our ability to maintain and operate a civilized society. That is another of what I view as failures in the design.

It is not my goal here to attack or promote any belief. It is my intention to present an argument for open-mindedness. I know that is a difficult standard to maintain. It requires a constant review of one’s own feelings and information bases. It is not always a matter of conviction that leads us to separate conclusions. Sometimes it is merely a difference in point of view, or of information possessed, or of transient uncertainties.