>>How do you feel about the Hiroshima bomb? Was it justified - because of its result? By the way, I'm not trying to compare what God did to that - but - just curious what your thoughts were on that subject...
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>That was a tough political and military decision. The Japanese were shown many times that the war was almost over for them and that they would do better giving it up. Their government was basically a military dictatorship that could not or would not lose face by surrendering. The estimated cost of having to actually invade the Japanese home islands with infantry and fight house by house was horrendous. That led to the Hiroshima decision. The Japanese Government was so hardheaded that it took a second one in Nagasaki to make them surrender. Given the historical context I have to support the decision.
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>>As to God's mercy, as I've stated many times already, we are all deserving of eternal punishment.
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>Your belief. Not the one of the majoprity of inhabitants of this world.
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True.

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>The fact that any of us are allowed to live at all is an act of mercy on God's part.
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>Again, you are confusing facts with your personal beliefs. Nobody "allows" me to live.
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I believe my personal beliefs are facts. In the same way, you believe they are not facts. Obviously, one of us is wrong...

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>I've also stated that there is some question about what happens to babies when they die. If you accept that they go to Heaven, then you can see that they are much better off there than on the Earth. In any case, I trust in the will of God. Just because I may not understand - does not make Him wrong.
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>If I don't accept the unproven concept of heaven and hell or an afterlife then this is the one >life. Nobody has the right to end these babies lives.


Just because you don't believe in something does not mean that no one has a right to end life - just means you don't believe they have that right.


>If fundamentalists are so unhappy with this life and yearn for the afterlife, then they know what >they have to do.


Yes, we trust in the Lord's timing for us to be with Him someday...