I guess that means you’ll relinquish your computer. You are also an environmentalist considering the world was created by God. No? Oh thats right, you savor man made things of convenience because they come from things of God. I mean, God created the Earth so man could pillage it’s resources for his own convenience. So therefore, the things that be of men are actually created by God. Your move sherlock.

Your opinions on the Iraq invasion directly contradict your statement that “a human being is never a problem.” You’re already well into that line of thinking, and you won’t be getting out of it anytime soon.

I agree that distance education is not a terrible thing. Many people use it to better themselves while working full-time. Though you do not gain the same social experiences, you can receive your degree/diploma without the massive burden of student loans. Just as a woman has a choice of what education she wants she should also have a choice of whether to have a child or not. Your argument that a human being is never a problem is disingenuous. For instance, I would consider Osama Bin Laden a problem and danger to society. As for a child, I do not see them as a problem, just as a preventable burden on a young woman. Don’t get my wrong, I do not feel abortions should be given like Advil for a headache. I just think the option should be there for woman if they so choose.

Yes, this planet we call home will eventually cease to exist. We as humans have the ability to even overcome this if we begin to work together as a species. Our potential is limitless if we do not kill each other first.

“But don’t trivialise love - love is not soft and mushy, but hard as diamonds and it claims all.”

Are you sure your not talking about War, Violence or even Greed? I see love as something very fragile which is easily broken. Love is not unlike trust and both often are linked so tightly it’s impossible for one to exist without the other. I truly find it hard to believe you can love something which you fight to destroy (Enemies). This is a foreign concept to me that frankly defies logic. Aside from the biblical notion, I have yet to see any practical application of this. Sure there have been instances during the first and second world wars where both sides shared meals or even games of football (European) during lulls in the fighting. The fighting always resumes and the hatred always comes back. The only exception to the rule I see is family. (IRA, brothers fighting brothers) However, I also hold this as a symbol of how fragile love is. Showing that disagreement over certain issues can break the bonds of even brothers.

I hold love in the highest regard as it is humanities most endearing trait. I just try to see it for what it really is and not some obscured one size fits all notion to apply when need.

And you should read what I wrote before you comment - I said the number of innocent people executed is zero.

As for the rest of it - some how I just don’t find the prospect of delayed college to be all that horrific, especially when placed against the loss of an innocent human life. The evil with the so-called “pro-choice” position is that it holds that a child is or at least can be a problem - a human being is never a problem. Get into that line of thinking and its just a matter of time before someone figures that you are the problem.

And, also, this little rock we live on where the borders don’t really matter - true words, though I suspect you haven’t thought them all the way through. This mote we live on is, indeed, small … and not very important in the really grand scheme of things. Furthermore, it is doomed - believe in God or don’t believe in God…both theology and materialism hold that this world has a finite existence and eventually everything on it will be less than a memory…unless, of course, you believe in that life of the world to come which all of creation shouts out to you is the case.

Trouble me not with words about the brotherhood of man - I’m highly familiar with the concept and, indeed, I really do feel myself to be the brother of all men…most especially those we call our enemies. But don’t trivialise love - love is not soft and mushy, but hard as diamonds and it claims all.

Mark, you really should start proof reading what you write man. You say the number of people executed by the state over many studies is zero, but then in a sentence after that you debunk your own statement. To top it off you come full circle and blame any said injustices in the legal system on man’s fallibility.

I’m sure the Vatican could use someone of your talents to help with bible camp and sunday day care. Get them while their young and the possibilities are limitless.

I do find it comforting to know, aside from a couple of readers your posts and comments are greeted with head shaking and such inner dialog as ‘Did this guy really just say that?’, ‘I want the phone number for his dealer’, or even ‘Evil PURE AND SIMPLE by way of the Eighth Dimension’… (yes, I quoted Buckaroo Banzai). The power and clout of your generation is coming to a close. What’s emerging is a more liberal, global community. It’s evident on a daily basis from i-phones and i-pods to my-space and Facebook. Borders are just lines on a map, lines which fiber optic cables, radio waves, wireless routers, etc. have no concept of. Kids have the ability to talk to someone in China or Russia anytime they wish. It’s this kind of connection thats paving the way for a better foreign policy. It’s a realization that we all live on the same tiny rock regardless of where we were born. On this rock everything effects everything from the smallest fart to the biggest boom. Looking down from space the only borders are created by oceans. Some of these oceans man has even spanned with bridges to connect to brothers on the other side. The sooner people start waking up and realizing we all have this rock in common and anyone caught outside in the rain will get wet. The sooner we’ll be able to move forward to this righteous plain of existence you clam to be living on Mark. Which makes that kind of Ironic I guess.

I’m against the death penalty and I am pro-choice. My thoughts on the death penalty are simple, it’s the easy way out. Murderers should be required to do hard labor for the rest of their days, or spend it in solitary.

As for abortion, who am I to tell a 16 year old girl that she must keep her baby and likely forgo college? I feel no sympathy for her or the choice she has to make because she should have practiced safe sex. However, speaking from experience (a couple of friends a few years ago) it’s not something you just go and do.

Of the friends I remember, one kept the baby for fear she may never have another one. She put off college for a few years but is now taking distance courses. The other one had an abortion and recently graduated college. Both are sweet woman, both made a choice and both have turned out or will turn out very well.

I’m sure you’ll see this as a prime example that women can be successful at a young age after having a child. So be it. Just know that both women are happy with their choices and if given the chance would not change anything.

Would you really feel justified in taking happiness away from my friend (even though it doesn’t affect you or your situation one iota) because she should not have a choice? If you answer yes, I wouldn’t consider that to be very Christian of you.

so the effective reality is not picture of corruption you are showing us, but instead….that we are in iraq to stop the slaughter of those innocents that you try to attribute to our sons and daughters….

not to mention…the disrespect you deserve for the ignorance that you posted….

Actually, after many studies over many years, the total number of innocent people executed by the State in the United States of America is - zero. The checks and balances in our politico-judicial system are such that the chances of executing the innocent are very small, even though there have been rare instances of innocent people being sentenced to death. While this is not existential proof that no innocent person has ever been put to death by State agency in America, it is as close as human beings will ever get.

That said, I’m opposed to the death penalty, anways. I said I’m a pro-life absolutist, and I meant it. We must never seek the death of the innocent and we must refrain from seeking the death of guilty people who have been rendered harmless. Only when engaged with an enemy who won’t yield is lethal force justified - and the dead of Iraq, each and every one of them, is ultimately the responsibility of those who started the war and those who sustain it in face of the clear evidence that we seek no conquest nor plunder in Iraq and, of course, that we are there by the express permission of the legitimate Iraqi government, and thus no one in Iraq has moral cause to resist our presence by force.

However, I would contend, that most ideologies, given that we have a choice…if a Nation is not in unison on what should be right then there can be only one of two things happen:

1. They can agree with God’s Word and expect blessings.

2. Disagree, on half works toward the protection of life, and the other half in defense of murder, and expect nothing other nothing other than down-fall.

This day and age we have too much victimology going on, people want to blame all of their problems on others except themselves, they see themselves as inerrant on all accounts…for instance…a woman goes to the doctor and says, “Doctor Orange, I’ve a problem and I need your help” … Doctor Orange says, “Ok, what is it?” The woman says, “I’ve got an STD and so and so gave it to me”

Another person comes to Dr. Orange and says, “Dr. Orange, I’ve got major problems, can you help me?” Dr. Orange says, “I’ll certainly try, what is it?” …. “It’s my legs, Dr. Orange, they’re taking me places I ought not go” “It’s my hands, they’re buying things I ought not buy” “It’s my feet, they’re taking me places I ought no go” … on and on.

Some people jump in front of a car, and if they survive they say, “The car wouldn’t stop”

We play in the victim game way to much in America…but it’s no game, my friend. America’s mentality of victimhood is from none other than Satan. Too many people give into the temptations of Satan … You see, Satan, he’s smart, and he can cook up a nice little recipe for disaster….he’s the hooker, and we take the bait way too often. Boyfriends, parents, friends, class-mates, teachers they all contribute to the Culture of Death whenever they say, “Get an abortion, get an abortion”

Another way people fall to the victimhood game, is….”I was born that way” for those who indulge in deviant sexual behavior.

So, if that’s correct, then we were born with the desire to murder? Born with the desire to steal? Born with the desire to hate? Born with the desire to….on and on.

The Bible says, ‘Sin, when it is fully conceived, gives birth to Death.’

Sin, is America’s problem, friends, and we can blame it on a million things…but ultimately, it is the desire of one’s heart…the choices we make.

You get a lot of rosey pictures of beer, wine, and liquor on tv commercials and bill boards…but that’s jus the beginning, they don’t show the ends….with a man laying in the gutter with his own vomit covered in flies!
At last, it stingeth like an adder!
‘Sin, when it is fully conceived, gives birth to what? To Death.

In order to break this chain of slavery to sin in America, people will ultimately have to get the will-power within themselves to ask God to forgive them and choose within them to become brand-new persons.