i agree with matchetman.

God tells us to be submissive to leaders (even bad ones) because God put them in office, but if their rules contredict God’s rules, go with God’s.

Didn’t we pass this in like..... the 15th century? Divine right was largely given up by Europe because if God really put people in power, then why would he put bad ones there? Not all rulers are just.

alien has also been called, stranger to this place, so in a certain extent, we are all aliens, and God was an alien.

Aliens are commonly defined as beings from outer space. I don’t know about you, but I’m from the earth and never left. Hence, I’m not an alien. God is, and Jesus is (assuming once again that you believe in both, which seems to be a pretty safe assumption given the audience).

true we are burning alot of fossil fuels, and i too want my kids (if and/or when i get them) to have a great world. but i believe we have a large supply of fossil fuels not yet found.

I think you’re missing my point here- I don’t mean that we’re using them up. I mean that we’re releasing greenhouse gases into the air which cause an increase in global temperature. That means that the permafrost thaws, and more greenhouse gases are released, causing a greater rise in temperature, on an on until the ice caps melt and we are all flooded out and there is no more life on land- there would be no land. That’s what I’m worried about, not using the fuels, but about flooding the over half the earth’s population that lives on coasts.

as far as the killing animals...
if you look at india, it is a poor country, for several reasons.
the one i am aiming at is, they won’t kill any animals, so those animals eat alot of grain, and can spread dieses. do kill out ragiously, but don’t become too out ragious.

Not so much just killing animals as killing the system. As for individual animals, I eat beef regularly. But if you want to start poisoning the water with chemicals, or having C.A.F.O.s dump their much into oceans, creating algae blooms and eventually massive dead zones, then that’s an issue with me. If you don’t get that jargon, post back and I’ll explain, but it’s late here on the east coast and I need some sleep.

where to we get our morals from? from my experience it has clearly been from one’s family and society.

On the subject of flexibility. just take a look at history. slavery, holocaust, conquistadors. Weren’t the last two here UNDER the word of god?

you have to see that even with people believing in god there are moral autrocities.

What about thou shalt not kill? The most basic law here is flaunted in wars, when even the religious kill because the human-established government said to.

you said assuming we believed in "both" God and Jesus. but they are the same.

They are only the same if you believe in Jesus. People can believe in god without believing in Jesus. Try any religion other than Christianity. I was trying to be tolerant, here. I know Jews, I know Muslims, and I know various people in other obscurer religions, and they believe in God but not Jesus. The world might not always see things the same way so let’s try to at least be able to encompass the whole world instead of assuming everybody else believes the same things we do.

what is up with the weather on the east coast?

I have no clue. What I do know is that the weather in Maryland bites.

-macheteman

it goes back to this:

you can say this isn’t like this. (in this case I believe in God but not Jesus), but just because you say it doesn’t make it so.

Jesus said: I [Jesus] and the Father [God] are one. He says it clearly, He and God the Father are the same spirits.