re: For those wanting to live in a post-Christian America, how are you enjoying it

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So, you’re good with wars of conquest? Mass slavery? Massive amounts of torture as punishment or simply for sport? Widows and unwanted children literally left to die in the street? Use of young boys as sex slaves? And on and on I could go.

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Do you want to hear about the sorts of behaviors the Hebrews and early Christian's took part in?

Genocide, killing women and children prisoners of war, stoning girls who don't bleed on her wedding night and old men picking up sticks on the Sabbath, etc...

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1. Christians see the Hebrew Bible on the same level as the New Testament cannon wise whereas Muslims see the Quran as superior.

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Christians ignore every inconvenient rule in the Old Testament

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Genocide, killing women and children prisoners of war, stoning girls who don't bleed on her wedding night and old men picking up sticks on the Sabbath, etc...

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You are describing the period of the Old Testament? That’s your equivalence? Failing to recognize the unfolding of salvation history that led to the coming of the new covenant?

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Christians ignore every inconvenient rule in the Old Testament

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Many of the Old Testament dictates such as dietary restrictions and such were meant for the Jews only and not for New Testament Christianity

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Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared, -1 Timothy 4:1-2

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For those who do read the Bible, this comes as no surprise. Stay vigilant, prayerful and repentant.

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Do you want to hear about the sorts of behaviors the Hebrews and early Christian's took part in?

Genocide, killing women and children prisoners of war, stoning girls who don't bleed on her wedding night and old men picking up sticks on the Sabbath, etc...

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Ok, I'll bite.

Exactly WHICH sects? And WHEN? According to which respective "law"?

You obviously want to make a point or two; Go ahead and make them.

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At a minimum, you still have death to look forward to, and probably some suffering, and likely some moral conflict, and the knowledge that you ma have hurt others, or failed to do your best, or you may have to deal with injustice or even malice from others, or maybe injustices and malice you will commit upon strangers, or family or yourself.

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Well I'm in for everlasting damnation then...

Look I don't give a damn what religion folks have or how they practice it (as long as they don't evolve me in it). I'm 73 yrs. old and have never read a single page in the bible.
I try to treat people fair and with respect. I go out of my way to help others physically and monetarily. I'm my hardest critic and know when I've fricked up.
If that's not good, enough so be it...

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The New Testament supersedes the Old Testament.

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No it does not. The New Testament fulfills the Torah.

Replacement theology is incorrect. Christianity didn’t replace the promises to Abraham. They were a fulfillment of them and we, as gentiles, were grafted into his family.

That’s literally New Testament scripture. Replacement theology hinges on the English translation of Jeremiah 31:31-34. The issue with that is the translation isn’t accurate as the word for new is more accurately renewed

Meaning God is reinstating the Promise He made.

I’m not saying I’m a judaizer. I’m saying the judaizers missed the point of their own covenant.

Now here we are doing the same exact thing hundreds of years later but on reverse.

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their suppositions are nested in a fundamentally Judeo-Christian morality.

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Which, in turn, is nested in a Babylonian morality.

...which, in turn, is probably nested in an ancient oral tradition morality.

Human morality, in all likelihood, predates the written word. It's probably fundamental to how Homo Sapiens became a social creature in the first place.

Jews didn't invent morality.

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OG Hebrews following God's commandments.

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Yes, but exactly which ones? There is such a thing as context back then.

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People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw rocks.

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AND...those people are...ALL Christians?? Some Christians?

Again, clarity and specificity needed. Making broad-sweeping accusations without context is like hitting the side of a barn from point-blank range and claiming, "NAILED IT!"

EVERY man is a hypocrite AND "sinner" -- if that's your point (a point Christians already acknowledge).

It doesn't mean the Law should be ignored when violated -- along with obvious law-breakers, does it?

Some people (along with "Christians") are nicking-up the Glass House while others are tossing boulders through them.

How's this for a Bottom Line?

If the question then becomes, "who can lead the *most* by example and as mentor of all laws?" Isn't the man who most abides in a (Biblical) standard of morality as the basis for good law and polite society in America help maintain a superior civilization?