Re Pat: This one should scare
"No, its anti-pope, theres a difference."
So did Bush cut off funding to third wold countries birth control programs because he just respects the Popes position or because those same programs also offer abortions?
"So it doesn't matter to you how bad someone acts, as long as they don't quote scripture?"
Quite the contrary, scripture quoters are just so value rigid that they have rather narrow parametere about interpreting whats bad. I take it war is good, as so many of them are started in the name of one obscure God or another.
"Try thinking about it from the perspective that the world of fire and brimstone is real. If you know that it is real, that it is forever, and there is a way to avoid it, what do you do? Keep it a secret so you don't hurt anyone's feelings? Or try to keep people from going there?''
I suspect the "flat world theory" of yore could have been justified by the exact same logic, even though all the scientific was pointing to the contrary.
"Put that way, God has a place for everyone. Its just a matter of who will accept it."
On this we almost agree. We probably would differ in our opinions of what his terms and conditions for acceptance are. Assuming that he exist of course. I'm still not 100 % sure of anything.