As long as the administration wants to have incredibly high salaries while making sure the employees are paid as little as possible, I'd say unions have a right to demand more justice.

Sorry, it's concede and not conceive. My mistake. Also, I wanted to be honest. I did read parts of the Bible and intend to read it in full eventually as I want to read other spiritual texts, but the parts I already read seems (to me) to not be that "godly". If you look at the Book of Kings, Elijah saw God start a fire to prove his existence. That's not a subtle God. If he were to exist, he could easily prove his existence today by appearing on TV or something like that. And yet, he doesn't want to do that and we're all going to hell if we don't blindly believe... This is in part why my "pre-conceived understanding of the world" has a problem with yours (if you are a believer). Anyway, peace be on you. :)

It's okay. As for the Bible, I simply read it literally. You have to conceive that if God would make a book, He would make it perfectly clear though. We would not need specialists to interpret it. It would have been interesting to discuss this in another setting. Oh well, peace be on you.

Ok, but Gentiles are non-Israelite tribes or nations so why would a god ask for different people to act differently? If Gentiles is only for Christians, then why would the same god would ask Jews to act in a way and Christians in another way. Finally, if Gentiles is taken in the sense of non-Christians and non-Jews, why would these specifications matter since they would go to Hell anyway?

Acts 15 does not say Christians should not put them to death. Unless you are saying the Bible is imperfect and contradicts itself as acts 15 actually does about circumcision. In that case, it would not be a holy book from God since God wouldn't make an imperfect book.

Does refusing to see the bible for what it is make you happy and somehow superior? Get some help, man.

It is true that Christians have become softer. If a country would become a Christian theocracy, you would still have problems. Christians are supposed to kill everyone that work on Sundays after all and much more! http://godisimaginary.com/i22.htm

Yes, I did that and it does make them uncomfortable to know that we don't even treat our prisoners like their God will treat us in hell. :)

So much for being an infinitely kind God that advocates pardon.

Oh, yes it does. :) http://godisimaginary.com/i22.htm

Oh, I'm not a Muslim. I thought it was clear I was quoting from yahoo answers.

To answer your question, they think God is real so even if we don't want to believe in it, we can't escape his laws. In the West, it is true we don't really have to follow their vision of the world as much, but if we were in a mixed society and you would start putting statues of Jesus, Moses, etc. everywhere, they would make sure to destroy them. Why? Because, in their opinion, they have the truth.