[tpaine]

I suppose you would argue that the responsibility need can be satisfied if people want to do good for "the society at large," rather than to God.
-pa-


You suppose wrong.
People are driven to 'do good' by self interest in having their peers do good onto them in return.
The golden rule works in a society ruled by constitutional law.

Your 'Gods law' can compliment our constitutional law, but it cannot be supreme to it.

[XEHRpa]

Your 'Gods law' can compliment our constitutional law, but it cannot be supreme to it.

First of all, it's not "my God's law", but I guess that's what an atheist might think (perhaps I'm presumptuous, for which I apologize in advance). Second of all, I do not advocate a theocracy in preference to our form of government. Rather, I believe (and you disagree) that Christian theology undergirds the philosophy on which our Republic was founded and stands, and that if we, as a society, forget that, going through the motions of a constitutional republic won't save us.

But trying to coerce a faith-based response, in order to "save the Republic" is foolish, wouldn't work, and would likely backfire. So, in many ways, I'm fully in your court. But if we blow it, I'm sure you and I would come up with different reasons as to why it happened as such.