[metmom]

With God out of the picture — with truth and justice out of the picture — all that is left is the dynamic of power. The endgame is the "war of all against all," a lapse into the ideology of "the survival of the fittest."

Note: that's the "fittest"; not the "best." The laser-like focus on the physical eclipses all moral criteria.

Thus man ceases to be man, and finally becomes a "mere" animal....

And when man becomes an animal, he does not opt to be a dove. Rather he becomes a vicious beast, and the natural (and social) world becomes a spectacle of "Nature, red in tooth and claw," to quote Charles Darwin. Some folks evidently find this scenario appealing in some way. I do not for the life of me understand why.

As can be evidenced in the atheistic regimes of the 20th century. Lenin, Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao, Castro, Kim Jung Il,....

Such is the fruit of atheism.

[LeGrande]

As can be evidenced in the atheistic regimes of the 20th century. Lenin, Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao, Castro, Kim Jung Il,

Oh please, whoever said that Atheism was equivalent to dictatorship? Christianity and Islam take to dictatorship quite nicely too, thank you.

Our Founding Fathers went to great lengths to keep GOD out of our politics. They saw first hand the evil that came from combining religion and politics.

Taking Religion out of Politics is a good thing.

[Alamo-Girl]

So very true, dear sister in Christ!