OK, so I've been thinking more about my previous post, and the list before it.

Here is my latest issue with my list of arguments:
I said, "Why does the Logos have to have been active?" and then said, "because if he weren't active, he wouldn't be able to reveal himself in any way except for the way that the rock reveals itself".

I stand by that, but I think it's not enough, because I already granted that the Logos is revealed to everyone in a way that supersedes our ability to observe it.

I'm not changing the reason, I'm adding to it:
The Logos must have actively revealed itself to us, because if it was passively revealed to us, then it would be indistinguishable from a value, and values are, by definition, subjective. Many people have differing values which are incompatible and yet completely well-intentioned. For example: Pro Choice vs. Pro Life.

So, having said that, I'm going to digress into talking about Pro Choice: I will acknowledge that not all Pro Choicers are well intentioned, but I'm convinced that at least some of them are -- the ones who haven't thought very carefully about it. I might sound prideful saying that, but so did John when he accused Herod of sin. It's not prideful to point out that someone is in sin.

If someone is in sin, but they are well-intentioned, then it means they don't understand what they are doing. If they understood the implications of their sin, then they would stop sinning, repent, and do right.

Here's the thing. There are some cases where either the mom dies or the baby dies. I am not in a position to decide who should live in that case -- I don't know the answer. But Pro Choice applies not just to extreme cases like that. In fact, the vast majority of abortions are done by people who simply don't want the baby or don't think they are financially able to support it.

So how do you respond to people who can't financially support the baby? By telling them to put it up for adoption. The problem with that is, foster care and orphanages suck. CPS does not always make the right decisions, and, in fact, I've heard of several cases where they didn't make the right decision.

So how do you fix the orphanages? Tell the church to start doing it's job!
Over and over and over the Bible tells us to help and protect the orphan, the fatherless, and the widow. And yet, there are more churches in Colorado than there are orphans! What are those churches doing?! I think that churches should band together to start nonprofit orphanages, where kids are raised, loved, and taught the truths of scripture.

How did the church grow initially? Rome didn't have abortion clinics, so they threw their babies outside the city limits. Christians went out and got those babies and cared for them. One or two generations later, the church was a powerful army of rejects, devoted to caring for those less fortunate.

They were persecuted and torched by nonbelievers for refusing to ascribe deity to humans, and then they were blamed for being warmongers.

What happened that made the church so impotent in America?

I don't know for sure, but as I've been looking into this, I think it has to do with the book: The Late Great Planet Earth. This book, apparently, describes a scenario where, as the earth becomes more evil, the world comes closer to ending. i.e., "the worse the world is, the better it is for Christians". This idea is fully realized when Christians turn a blind eye to evil going on all around them. For example, simply allowing babies to get murdered by the thousands every day.

"Well, what can I do about it?" America is now a place where religion is not allowed to have a bearing on the law. This means that even if (especially if) the majority of Americans are Christian, morality is relative to each individual's desires. This is now taught in school (evolution and not creation). So we can start by not indoctrinating our kids to believe things that defy common sense (such as that we are atoms floating in a purposeless universe, and our senses are more than likely unreliable, so there can never be certainty of anything you know).

Once we've got that down: have more kids. After that: teach your kids that morality matters, and is universal. And when they say "why does it matter?" give them a reason. If you're an atheist, you won't be able to say anything but "I don't want to be harmed, and I am right because my feelings tell me so, so don't harm me even if your feelings tell you otherwise." Their argument is completely subjective, and has no way to say that the psychopath is wrong for doing what he thinks is fine.

While we're teaching our kids morality, we should be boldly having discussions with people about their worldview. Help others to understand that morality is important, and that there are reasons why it is important.

Speaking of important, I'm gonna call Chowon and remind her that I love her.

"I can't know anything, except that you're wrong."