1. I am still interested in hearing your answer to my previous question, if you want to answer it: "if AIDS is a punishment from God for sin, isn't it then immoral to try to find a cure for it? Aren't scientists who invent AIDS medicines and the people who use them circumventing the will of God?"
Asked and answered, bro. I'm just not saying what you want to hear, i.e., you simply don't like the answer. My answer is that we're all fallen, i.e., our sinful nature leads us to our death, whether it be direct (full-blown AIDS from HIV) or indirect (AIDS from blood transfusion). The lion existed in the beginning too, yet he didn't take a bite out of Adam's or Eve's hide. It wasn't until the fall of man that the lion started having humans for lunch. Not to til the fall of man did people started drowing their own children, etc.
2. I don't get your ledge analogy. You word it vaguely so I don't see what you're referring to.
I look at life from an either/or perspective, whereas you have a more pluralistic viewpoint.... the ledge has many sides, none of which mean ascending upward or descending downward. In your viewpoint, we exist because we exist, right? There is no meaning for our existence.
3. You mean the highlighted people have been successful in secularizing America? Newsflash: These people didn't secularize America. The Founding Fathers did. It was secular from the start.
See the obnoxious aggressive nature of religion? The American Taliban can't accept a secular country that protects their freedom of religion, everyone else's freedom of religion, and freedom from religion. You can't tell them,
"well, Mr. Falwell, you believe in your rapture and your second coming of Jesus, and let the Muslim believe in Mohammed and Allah, and I will enjoy my Shakespeare and Mozart and Picasso, and we can all live happily and in peace"
no more than you can say to a suicide bomber bent on blowing you up "well, Ahmed, you believe in Muhammad and the Twelfth Imam and all that, and I'll watch my TV shows and listen to my rock bands, and we can live in peace and harmony side by side."
Ahmed is bent on blowing himself up and taking you with him, so he can get his 72 virgins, and the American Taliban demand a "Christian nation." It is this absolutism of religion that I hate and fight.
The only aggression I see is towards those who believe Christ to be the Saviour to all who will accept Him. As I've said before, I don't believe in religion. I only believe in God, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.