I spent a few years in Japan. It's actually quite possible that she would assume that no one would look at them out of common courtesy. To give you an idea how Japanese culture works, here's a story. Once, shortly after we arrived in Japan (we had been there only a few days iirc), we were traveling on a highway when we came to something like a toll plaza or something we'd call an oasis. A bus had stopped there, and about 10 men got out of the bus, lined up facing a wall, and began to urinate in public. My mother was laughing at the sight, and suggested that this would be considered rude in the US. The guide said that in Japan, it would be considered rude to notice.

I think American sensibilities would lead people to keep things like that hidden if it worried them. But this just might not be the case in other cultures like Japan.

God is supernatural. The very definition of that word means that God is outside of nature. Because of this, God can either work within or without the confines of nature to affect his will. In other words, God could strike you dead by making a piano materialize over your head. Or he could simply allow you to catch aids through your lifestyle and die that way.

Did people 4000 years ago understand that a rainbow comes from refracted light? No. Could God have used light refraction to implement a rainbow? Yes. Remember that the world before the flood was wildly different than it is now. It had never rained before the flood. (water for plants and animals came from other sources) So a rainbow would indeed be a new phenomenon for people here on earth. (People often think this is far too fantastic to be true. But how many weird planets are their in our universe? And how much of a astronomical change would it take to turn our planet into something very different?)

You're right that the bible predicts that the earth will be destroyed by God's judgments. But I think it's important to note that it's humans and their free will that brought these judgments upon the planet. Who is responsible then?

I had an interesting conversation on a christian forum discussing the 2012 "prophecies" and such. The book of revelation describes a lot of events during the tribulation that result in destruction here on earth. A few in particular seem like accurate descriptions of large meteor strikes. One describes something "like a large fiery mountain crashing into the sea." We wondered whether this event would be 100% supernatural in origin, whether God would simply bump an asteroid in our direction depending on our behavior, or whether this asteroid is currently on an intercept course because he already knows the outcome of our behavior. It could be any of those. One of the events associated with 2012 is the galactic crossing where we're supposed to cross through the plane of the galaxy. What if the galaxy contains a saturn-style ring full of space junk? Some of them could be the size of small planets. They could pass through the solar system disrupting orbits, the axis of rotation, even the rotational speed of the earth. Then again, it could just all be supernatural in origin.

Anyway, time is running out. Christians will disappear soon and whoever's left gets to deal with all these unpleasantries. It will be so bad that people will wish for death. Of course, death will bring something far worse than life here under those conditions. Repent or else.

This is true. The only unforgivable sin is the rejection of salvation. But this is because you won't allow yourself to be saved.

Hell is full of people who rejected Jesus. It's not so much rejecting the full knowledge of God as it is rejecting salvation.

Jesus clearly said on a number of occasions that there is a hell and many (even most) will go there.

And where did you get this idea? The descriptions I've read in the bible are far from boring.

Understatement of eternity.

I wouldn't. This is an awful place. I don't ever want to come back here again.

What if the Evil guy didn't win, but led people to believe that he had? Or that he was the good guy? Or that he didn't even exist?

Isn't that what Satan does? And where does God ever behave this way? If we have free will, and someone does something evil, who is responsible? God for allowing it? Or the person for doing evil? If God intervened, we wouldn't have free will anymore.

Or how about God telling everyone that he is their only God, and Satan telling the people who won't listen that some other gods are the true way, or that there is no God?

There are practical reasons for the rules. While it may just be having fun to you, there are serious real-world consequences that you could never predict or know about. Why not pick up a girl and have some fun tonight? Oh, you got HPV. 10 years later, oh my wife has HPV. Oh, my baby got HPV during delivery and died from complications. Oh man, I have penile cancer now and there's only one treatment for that. All because of a night of fun. If only there were a set of rules I could live by that could protect me from these kinds of unintended consequences...

This applies to humans, not God.

I sincerely hope you figure out the truth before it's too late.

What's the difference between finite and infinite?

It's not God condemning you to an eternity in hell, you condemn yourself through your actions (or inaction).

Actually, getting into heaven has nothing to do with being good. You only have to be saved. Jeffery Dahmer was saved shortly before he died. I fully expect to see him there. Some might wonder what kind of god would allow "justice" like this, that a serial killer would be allowed into heaven! But I see it differently. If God can save a serial killer, he can save anyone.

This is the age of grace, and as saved christians, the law does not apply to us. Of course, without Jesus, you're still under the law. Which is why you'll never make it.

This is a catholic thing. Not all christians believe in this. Please stop lumping us all together.

I don't fear death, because I know where I'm going. And I find great comfort and reassurance in that right here.

I wasn't aware that there was any difference between McCain/Palin and Obama/Biden, or that anyone else could have won an election in this country and lived to tell about it.

Or maybe, this all has nothing to do with security or stopping terrorism. And she isn't really in control.

I disagree. If your employer ordered you to murder someone, you'd be charged with the crime also. We absolutely need to throw the grunts under a bus. This might wake up the rest of them and make them quit.

They were only following orders. Godwin indeed.

You're right that it should be stopped from the top. But the grunt should know better and quit.

You mean like anyone who watches video of the collapse of building 7 and concludes that it wasn't an obvious controlled demolition?

Maybe not so massive. I've been a christian for quite a while and have yet to meet a single person that advocates anything like a theocracy. Most will simply encourage you to vote democrat or republican depending on whether they think feeding the poor or stopping abortion is more important. But don't let a silly thing like reality get in the way of your rants.

Don Quixote, is that you?!

Worse than that, does she have to go through security every time she comes home? Does she have to put on her seat belt every time she sits down? Did she reuse the airplane bathrooms? Does turbulence occasionally throw her out of bed? No more than six ounces of liquid allowed in the house?

"Sorry I'm late. It took me an extra 20 minutes to get clearance from the tower before I could push back from the garage."

Bu-bye now, Bu-bye.

Wouldn't it be great if artists became popular because they were good?