re: Over Half of Democrats Don't Believe in Hell or the Devil

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He can do any thing the mind can imagine

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Ok Gotcha

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Bad place to leave out a word. He can not do anything the mind can imagine.

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What's so funny?

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I believe dinosaurs really existed. Certain ones may have even been on the ark, though most of them died in the flood like so many other people and animals. Before the fall of Adam, all animals would have only eaten plants, herbs, and grasses and not meat.

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Those people were tearing you with kid gloves, because you are childish and potentially mentally unstable, or because they thought that response would shut you up without them having to listen to your nonsense.

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That's factually not true, at least according to their own testimonies, but hey, believe whatever you want to believe (see what I did there?)

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They “couldn’t” believe because they just couldn’t believe because there’s no evidence of your fairy tales and there’s too much overwhelming evidence proving your fairy tales are just that.

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As I've said a few times now, there are many evidences for what I believe to be true, you just don't accept them for what they are because they conflict with your godless worldview.

Everyone has presuppositions that guide how we interpret evidences. Your presuppositions won't allow you even the possibility of interpreting evidences in any way other than in an anti-God way.

Man, Christians turned a beautiful and simple spiritual experience into a massive religion with a book written by man that is "inerrant."

I am a new testament guy myself. “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’ and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”

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and even the ones who claim they do don't use the term that way in normal conversation.

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Nor do they live their lives as though it is true.

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Because 99% of the population has never given a nanosecond of thought to the origins of morality. Of those who HAVE considered the question, I suspect that most just do not want to deal with the childish tantrums of those holding a different view or ESPECIALLY of those who think that their understanding of morality is the ONLY one.

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It seems to me that those of you who seem to espouse a materialistic viewpoint are just as inclined to attempt to challenge others' opinions on specific points of morality as those on the theistic side.

I've not done that in this discussion. What I am disagreeing with is the notion that the popularity of social mores actually render some actions moral and other actions immoral without regard to any principles or foundation.

Basically just a big old popularity contest.

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there are many evidences for what I believe to be true

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No, there isn’t. However, there is actual overwhelming evidence and repeatable observable proven scientific theories to counter what you believe to be true.

You believe carnivorous dinosaurs - with meat eating teeth and digestive systems which could not have digested plant matter - were on the ark (which didn’t exist) 6000 years ago. C’mon man.

No telling what you think of Australopithecus, Homo Habilis, and Homo Erectus fossils, and transitional dinosaur to bird species such as archaeopteryx. Tools of the devil?

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Your presuppositions won't allow you even the possibility of interpreting evidences in any way other than in an anti-God way.

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You project. You have presuppositions and biases that cloud your judgement, not me. I’m rational. I look at the evidence and acknowledge things that are actually fact. If evidence of a God was made apparent, I would take that into consideration. Problem is there is no evidence, despite your B.S. claims.

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Treating others the same as you would want to be treated is outside influence?

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There it is. The basis for Morality. "As ye would that men do to you, do ye likewise unto them". If there is God, and an afterlife with the Just consequence rendered according to the principle in the above narrative, then the 'what goes around comes around' would be Just and Moral.

IMO, there can be no Morality where there is no Love. And there can be no Love lest there is more than 'One' to reflect and validate said Love. The 'One' (God) might describe Itself as Love, but such would only be the potential of Love until such was shared and manifest between 2 loving Entities. Enter Jesus, and Love manifest.

Even more so, the creation of Humanity, albeit flawed by virtue of Humanities' limitation, imperfection and free will, which inevitably becomes de facto 'Evil'. God had to choose between either creating a limited (I.e., Evil Humanity for the sake of greater Love, or not. The Word rules both God as Potential Power, and Jesus (the Self/I Am) aspect of 'The Father'/God/Pure Energy/Potential as stated via "In the BEGINNING was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God). The Word (of Truth, accurate 'Blueprint') sets the rules.

God/Jesus respects those Rules and will not usurp the 'free will' of created Humanity to choose it's own ultimate value. Love of God (the Whole), or love of Self (Lucifer's choice).

Outside of validation of the idea of God, Humanity can choose it's Morality. But choose they must, as well as bearing the consequences (ultimate absence from God/Love) if one chooses Self over God. All Morality will flow from one or the other of these two. Other it is 'survival and prosperity of the fittest' and "wailing and gnashing of teeth".

Understanding and or believing these ideas comes with an innate cost. "Ye are bought with a price (owned)...", and "ye shall know the Truth and it shall set you free". Obvious paradox. The Word of Truth rules. But only for those who can "receive" it. The rest will fight it out over what is moral and what ain't. A real fight, and not abstract talk. "Where there is no vision (of Truth) my people die".

More mud on the wall.

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Over Half of Democrats Don't Believe in Hell or the Devil

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One day they will