[Coyoteman]

Our struggle is with non-Theistically based morality. All non-Theistically-based morality, whether left or right, cruel or gentle, is basically the same thing. It denies the right of the Creator to make laws (because they are "tyrannical") while defending the right of human beings to make laws based on a "mutual agreement" to act as if a meaningless universe had meaning. I notice no one ever seems to object to laws made by "rational" human beings as being arbitrary or tyrannical. Apparently only G-d A-mighty doesn't have the right to tell people how to behave.

And you are a theocrat, pure and simple.

What if some of us don't choose to live under your interpretation of a deity and the resultant laws? What happens to us blasphemers?

Speaking of "crimes:"

Of all the strange "crimes" that human beings have legislated out of nothing, "blasphemy" is the most amazing -- with "obscenity" and "indecent exposure" fighting it out for second and third place.

Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, 1973

[valkyry1]

Seriously CoyoteGuy,

Quoting Heinlein from any of his books adds no intellectual gravitas at all.

He wrote some engaging novels, but when you got thru to the end of them, you saw it as entertaining junk. I read a lot of his work, ‘Friday’ was my most liked out of him.

My all time most liked SciFi novels were ‘Childhoods End’ and ‘Rendezvous with Rama’