Religion trumping freedom

[kandrathe]

..."God's Will" is to deny the existence of the Devil, ...

The discussion you'd get here will be to describe it all as mumbo jumbo. I don't think human suffering is as simple as testing akin to Job. If we return to the story of Corrie Ten Boom, I mentioned earlier, she eventually decided that the barracks infestation of lice was a blessing, in that it kept the guards from wanting to be in proximity of the prisoners and afforded them some freedom. Sometimes we don't see everything, and I'd say especially in those things that are particularly horrific. To me they are more examples of the fallen-ness of humanity.

In the Abrahamic religions, evil(sin) exists in the world as expressions of free-will in opposition to God. Without the possibility of evil, there can not be free will, or freely given love. We'd be relegated to robotic devotion. The divine permission for the existence of evil, or badness, or even death is the hardest part for even many theists to understand.

Personally, I'm appalled ...

Mississippi Tea party bigot says something stupid, news at 11.

The problem is, somewhere along the way, the Religious portion of America's population latched on to something.

They took all the Democratic party rejects. Once upon a time, there used to be conservative Democrats.

Regarding the topic title, it's clear.

Unless Roman Polanski does it, then according to Hollywood types it's not "Rape Rape".

Religion and state MUST be separated!

So this is about access to abortion? Isn't that also a question (at least on one side) of life or death?

Just to be clear... The Bible does not say that rape is Gods plan -- it's as distorted as the wacko Phelps family interpretation that God hates America for loving gays.