[tpaine]

Arthur McGowan wrote:

Denials of the existence of God are actually assertions that there is no being which has some kind of authority over man.

Exactly true. -- "There is no being which has some kind of authority over man", in a Constitutional sense.
Feel free to preach that God exists, but do not insist that your peers obey Him.

There is nothing in the Constitution which asserts or implies that men are not obliged to obey God's law.

Are you claiming that I am obliged to obey your vision of "God's law"?

[PatrickHenry]

Anthropic, uncaused placemarker.

[Arthur McGowan]

You are obliged to act in accordance with what you sincerely believe to be the truth.

There is still nothing in the Constitution that is relevant to this discussion. The Constitution is NOT the source of any of our rights. It is a legal instrument by which we delegate to the federal government certain functions.

[Jaguar1942]

History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help......

God is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent - it says so right here on the label. If you have a mind capable of believing all three of these divine attributes simultaneously, I have a wonderful bargain for you. No checks, please. Cash and in small bills.

The most preposterous notion that H. sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history.

There, from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, tells you how I feel about this whole conversation in a nutshell...