in psychology, a rigid system of beliefs with which a person is preoccupied and to which the person firmly holds, despite the logical absurdity of the beliefs and a lack of supporting evidence. Delusions are symptomatic of such mental disorders as paranoia, schizophrenia, and major depression and of such physiological conditions as senile psychosis and delirium. They vary in intensity, extent, and coherence and may represent pathological exaggeration of normal tendencies to rationalization, wishful thinking, and the like. Among the most common are delusions of persecution and grandeur; others include delusions of bodily functioning, guilt, love, and control

By the way, did you curse out the big guy for putting you in this predicament? Makes as much sense as praising the sky fellow for a good outcome.

I would call you a “Christian” – that is not a compliment. You do know that “what Jesus spoke so much about” is hearsay.

I’ve written on my blog that Mystery reigns over intellect for me, and I am more than happy to play the fool. As to the above comment, if Christians were about “kingdom of God” business as Jesus spoke so much about, there would be no discussion of political involvement. And if they’re not about “kingdom of God” business, I’d hesitate to call them ‘Christian’ anyhow.

Recognizing that reality, it makes little sense not to also recognize the utility of Separation of Church and State in Religious Dogma that defends and furthers gender persecution as anything different than the social and cultural equivalent of the Fugitive Slave Laws.

Within the schemes of the Civil Rights laws, gender equity is very much a part of religious fiction that is allowed to exist under the separation of church and state to favor gender and sexual identity deception and misinterpretation for discriminatory advantage. In this respect, separation of church and state is a perverse use of the Constitution to perpetuate cultural condemnation on the basis of the 14th Amendment which prohibits such discriminatory use of the Constitution.

If churches do not rise themselves to end the schizophrenic interpretation by preaching that the world is flat when it is round, the state and federal government must intervene to prevent the harms that arise from such propaganda in the name of religion. Government’s hands off attitude is one the Constitution “invented” for fear of challenging ecclesiastical authority though it has never been shown nor proven that God favored men over women in Biblical scripture. For millions of humans in every generation, this preferred persecution has no basis in law, and likely, no basis in fact to permit such a hands off attitude by government, and religion, if not God, needs to be on trial much like the famous historical Santa Clause identity trial over whether humans can defend such cultural persecution in the legitimate name of religion – for any religion. God may not have been a racist, we are taught; but God was biased in every other form of discriminatory prohibition forbidden by the American Constitution. Why should not churches be held to the same standard as everyone else?

Haha, that is the most (unintentionally) funny comment on this blog. I know, those door-to-door people aren’t TRUE christians.

Because they do not proclaim truth.

(I’m surprised nobody posted that sooner.)

Do you think I have not been to church? Do you think I have not read the Bible? Do you think you are the ONLY person who has yacked about this religion? Why does every christian think they are the only person who has talked to me about jeebus?

HAHAAHAHAHAHAAHAHA!!!!!

Yes, it seems to be the case, but I have seen instances where people going through a crisis of faith stumble onto this site and it would be a shame for them to be lost simply because they uncritically soaked up the *attitude* of this site (many of the articles here consist merely of polemical assertions, or objections that have been dealt with before).

you would seem to advocate appear to be a sickening version of fundamentalism–you, in fact, represent the “straw man” version of Christianity that has, at the very least, given the non-Christian world something to dislike.

You act like I study Fred Phelps and Jack Chick every day to pick up style points. This is clearly an exaggeration – you are just not used to Christians boldly and confidently proclaiming the truth, so you consider it rude whenever a Christian doesn’t immediately curl up into a ball in the corner when you argue against him.