I’m agnostic/weak atheist and forgiveness is just part of my daily existence, but it has no religious basis. To me it simply means I don’t hold wrongs against the person who did them. I do not wish a hurt back at them. People do the best they can do at any moment in time.

Stahrwe: You are doing well Grasshopper. When you can snatch the false meaning from scripture by quoting out of context, then you may leave. The entire, relevant portion of Matthew 10 is [followed by the last 24 verses of the chapter] Chuck: Interesting way to respond. Are you really laboring under ...

Stahrwe: [Buddha] is not a person to emulate. Buddha left home, abandoned his wife and young son in a search for his own happiness. Some guy. Chuck: Unlike Jesus, who encouraged family love. Matthew 10: 35 & 36 I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her m...

Do we want to compare numbers of people killed by 'christians' verses atheists? Atheists Pol Pott Joseph Stalin Mao I suppose, if you added up the victims of Islam and Christians, you would have only a fraction of one of the above. Yours is a weak argument because it opens the door to an easy respo...