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Seun:
Christianity is not hated; it's the most popular religion in the world.
The average Christian experiences no persecution whatsoever.

I doubt that was the plan, though.

Enigma is making really sound points here.

Evil and Good are subjective terms. Subjective to a conceived or believed threshold. For one who believes in God, this threshold might be marked by God's intentions and the respective contraries.

Therefore in a worldview that does not recognize God (like atheism) what is this threshold? How do you know something is really evil? Or absolutely good [/i]enough to be called [i]good? What is the measure?

We cannot say it is simply a common human moral perception, because we very well know that human moral perceptions are a motleyed mixbag, which brings us right back to evil and good being subjective terms.

Then, we cannot say an atheist, having no such clearly defined threshold for good and evil, can rightly define good and evil without an influx of his/her own bias.

I want to resurrect a really interesting question asked earlier on in the thread by debosky.

debosky: The second question to all in general is - when exactly is 'marriage' deemed to have occurred in the sight of God? Is it when you both agree to be married and make your pledges to one another (either privately or publicly) or when you sign a legal document, or when you 'solemnize' the union in a church?

Who wants to have a go first?