Spoken like a true Christian!

Thanks.

They should also be required to provide their military credentials before expressing anything.

Is that what Rush told you? He served in Vietnam with me, didn’t he?

Can I ask which foxholes and/or wars that you took an active part in?…
You know killed and/or shot at people who hate America as much as you do???

I don’t know where Heller is today. Dead, I imagine. So?

The Pledge of Allegiance was written at the turn of the 19th Century by a Christian Socialist and popularized in a children’s magazine called “The Youth’s Companion.” I don’t see its relevance to this debate, and I tried really hard.

Putting “In God We Trust” on money was done by some politicians long ago who, granted, were probably pretty god-like in their day, but who also have little to say that would inform our discussion.

I think you’re simply a confused person who has the benefit of a computer.

I’m saying that life’s purpose is whatever you want it to be . . . you, you, you.

It doesn’t even have to have a purpose if that makes someone happy. Where is it written that it’s required to have a purpose, anyway? Who commands such a humorless edict?

And to use Joseph Stalin to smear all atheists is dishonest. Albert Einstein was an atheist, too. So what does that prove? Nothing.

Atheism is a matter of personal intellectual preference. Ayn Rand — somebody I don’t particularly admire — was an atheist who absolutely hated Stalin.

You make poor arguments that don’t stand up to much reasoning. The Enlightenment has left you in the dark, yet you get to use technology like computers and the Internet inspired by science and not the Bible.

You’re like a one-man impaired school district.

Thanks for telling me I can keep my version. I didn’t know I could do that until you told me. I always thought you could keep yours, though.

“(P)ersonal responsibility to what and whom?”

Think about that first word “personal.” It would have to refer to the person invoking it, right?

“Personal” as in “Personal Pan Pizza.”

See, this is how dumb you are: You’re asking me who is supposed to eat a Personal Pan Pizza. “To what and whom is this pizza for?” you ask in your confusion.

“Why, ‘personal’ means ‘personal to you,’ Cupcake. How hard a concept could that be to grasp?

“Did you learn this philosophy from Manson?”

I see. In your world, philosophies always have to be handed down from somebody else. You can’t come to your own conclusions because you live in a mental Nanny State.

So, then, it’s more accurate to say that your ideas are closer to the Manson Family’s since they need to be handed down from above. They aren’t gotten from within — can’t be gotten from within. It would break up the Family. So I’d say you’ve chosen an ample metaphor here to describe you.

P.S.

Joseph Heller, the author of CATCH-22, flew 60 bombing missions during World War II and was also an atheist. Actually, he should probably be described as a “sub-atheist,” because it didn’t make any difference to him whether there was a god or not. He didn’t care one way or the other. I guess Manson told him to be like that.