It is impossible to argue with people for whom the definition of words is so elastic as to render them meaningless.

When every second counts, the police are only ten minutes away.

"Nothing against all the free thinking atheists out there, but what rational argument can be made against “Thou shalt not kill” or “Honor thy Father and Mother”?" Lovely bit of demagoguery and the typical picking and choosing of palatable religious dogma. What "rational argument" can be made for stoning people who work on Sunday? You can't run from the Old Testament, Jesus came to fulfill it, not destroy it. Yet, there it is, full of hate and genocide. For someone who "yawns" over this whole bit, she sure is trying to make some money on it by placing this strawman argument as a column. By the way, I'm an atheist who celebrates Christmas with family, and doesn't care what displays you have publicly.

Hillary Clinton hasn't yet paid the poor working stiffs who supplied her 2008 campaign, yet she and her husband are millionaires. Funny how many of these leeches don't seem to mind screwing everyone around them, just to get in office and screw all of us.

God has always known everything that could or would happen. That means he created us knowing he would later, in supposed anger, drown us all like rats. That is absurd.

God never has new information because he has always known everything that would or could ever be or happen. That means that he created mankind knowing that they would fail and he would drown them like rats. It was no surprise to him, so there could be no anger. This is nonsense written by truly ignorant bronze-age men. Trying to make sense of it leaves you you looking even more pathetic that you look believing it in the first place.

Don't start out with an article that is patently offensive, and we won't bring it on.

Don't start out with an article that is patently offensive, and we won't bring it on.

Egregious actions were noted as such long before ten commandments. Do you believe that people didn't know that murder was wrong before the commandments? Do you believe that people didn't know that stealing was wrong before the commandments? It's absurd. Bronze-age men cobbled the religion together in order to control their people. Archeologists have proved there was no Exodus event from Egypt. The religion is a myth.

Your argument presumes too much. It presumes that there is sin as described by bronze-age texts, rather than just actions by people at odds with their own good, and the good of others. It presumes that there was "only one man in the entire history of the world" who did anything, and that it needed being done. The bible is true, because the bibles says it is so, is circular reasoning, and is rejected by anyone with an ounce of logic.