>I'm saying that if a person's morality is not based on the Bible, it is a wrong morality and in the end will lead to eternal punishment in Hell. I think all people have some sort of morality - but - again if it's not a Biblical morality it is immoral in the site of God.
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>A "wrong morality"....by what standard?
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>I hope you realize that the majority of Americans believe that heaven and hell are more symbols than anything else. Despite an ever-growing amount of lip service paid to religion, most Americans (thankfully) don't take religion seriously. If they did, political freedom would be very very difficult.
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>I think it's unfortunate that despite a Renaissance, an Age of Reason, an Age of Enlightenment, we still have people walking around with the impetuous mantra of "if a person's morality isn't based on the bible, they'll burn in hell".
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>Kevin

Maybe he should read Thomas Paine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Paine and his "The Age of Reason" http://www.ushistory.org/paine/ a free book (there is no copyright from 1796 so it is legal to download). A wonderful book that all American, Rationalists, Deists et all should read once.