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Thank God I'm an atheist !

Holden, your comments are always sure to please the sound byte addicts.

Seriously though, I'm very much opposed to ANY government funding of such projects. Once you let Big G tie his grubbly little strings to funding, he wants to direct and control it. There is NO need of an Education Department, and certainly no need for government vouchers.

One of the biggest challenges we face today is how to roll back Big Government. I never liked the sound of "faith-based" initiatives. Government (including the courts) should not do what only religious groups should do themselves.

If government does anything in the area of benevolence and social initiatives it should be local, not federal. Even then it should only do what civil governments are designed by God to do: collect very minimal taxes to repair the roads and run the police departments, regulate inter-state and international commerce, fight wars and otherwise protect the citizenry, and a few other non-interference things. The less the better!!!

Nevertheless, government(Congress and courts) should never transgress the moral Law of God; but it should be because the nation and the persons involved are godly enough to know better, not because a paritcular church or denomination is established.

So I guess I am in agreement with the opposition to "faith-based" initiatives run by the government - but for very different reasons.

"Members consider themselves freethinkers who form opinions based on reason, not faith."

Opinions should always be based on facts and reason, not faith or personal preference disguised as reason.

God designed the DOT? As in "Waiting for G-DOT"?

I am not sure I'd want every opinion and choice I made in life based solely on reason. Sometimes, instinct is pretty good. It's often more fun. And while emotions do cloud rational decision-making, they can be relatively harmless and actually quite enjoyable when forming aesthetic and other non-life-threatening opinions. It would be a dry existence indeed if we formed opinions about art based only on reason.

Amen, Freddy; preach it brother!

But personally, niether intution, emotion nor reason is enough. To BASE important policies and laws on such is precarious to say the least. Basing all of life on the inspired, rock-solid truths of the Word of God (rightly and intellignetly interpreted, of course) is by far the best option.