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Secular people have in the past adopted views that have had wholly harmful effects on the welfare of mankind. Communism and Nazism come to mind in that light. Today, secularists have adopted far more destructive beliefs - zero population growth, heterosexual AIDS, the smoking scare and global warming doomsday - all beliefs rooted in emotional hysteria rather than fact. A society that lives for the present is more likely to take imagined threats seriously than its weight would warrant. A society that lives for the future as a Judeo Christian one does, takes a far more reasoned view of possible dangers and emphasizes salvation is not only of the world but is beyond the world as well. Religious believers have typically emphasized self-control and delayed gratification as the key to the good life. For the secular, the here and now and epicurean satiation is the aim of the good life. Dennis Prager would note this difference in the view of how life ought to be lived is at the heart of the divide between secular and religious people today. Americans and Europeans have different values and expect life to offer them different things and neither thinks the values of the other is suitable for their chosen existence.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

Amen & Amen !!! A very clear presentation! I stand with those that chose “Inspiration over Evolution” if only due to the consquences alone. And I do the same with the secularist and those of the Godly Christian faith. History bears this out, people of faith have built, hopitals, schools, colleges, and great universities. Few if any, have been established by the secularists, they have only kidnapped them, and taken then hostage.(For the lack of a better word).