[Nervous Tick]

By the same logic, since adults are most definitely not innocent of sin, it is acceptable to murder them.

[Robert DeLong]

Exactly what I was about to post as a response. As an added caveat the Ten Commandments are meaningless. By continued extrapolation, The Bible is fiction, and God is merely a figment of our imagination. If all that is true than there is no such thing as Original Sin either.

Which means this Methodist minister, John M Swomley, is a huckster who doesn't believe in the Ten Commandments. The Bible, God or even Heaven & Hell. Yet he is firmly committed to the concept of Original Sin? How convenient.

It's truly amazing how much religion has allowed itself to be so perverted in one generation. Perhaps I am just seeing it that way. Maybe the truth is, religion has been slowly perverting itself all along.

I think I have always been somewhat suspicious of all religions, and waffled in and out of belief in God (especially in my younger years, and at my convenience of course) until I looked around and decided that this all could not have happened by coincidence. There indeed had to be a creator. The fact that it is still in existence, proves to me that our creator still exists as well.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Just evil... one does not have to posit an eternally innocent humanity to respect them the same as God wants them respected.