I think I’ll take the arsonist’s word at face value long before I trust anything FoxNews or the rightwing has to say.

I have thought about you frequently since your last post, and decided to write back on Christmas Day, the most important day in Christianity alongside the resurrection of Christ. The entire world is celebrating his birth today; and I would hazard a guess that you also enjoyed Christmas day today. I hope you did, Randy.

In reply to your question about the Salvation Army, to seek truth, look to the truths of Christianity, and don’t let yourself be deceived and led astray would be my advice, in love.

Why didn’t the LGBT community reach out to her and help her? Why didn’t anyone reach out and help her? Perhaps, in the future, there will be city services that provide shelters to meet the needs of the Jennifer Gales of the world, and they would publish their extended services so the Jennifer Gales would not be marginalized or discriminated against until the day that all the nuances of the issue are solved.

For your thoughtful question about “why Christian charities”, I don’t know of any professed atheist sponsored charities. If you believe in a creator God, then Christianity has the most reasonable truth claims, and if you then accept Christ, the truth claims of the other religions you mention are opposed to the basic truth claims of Christianity, and are therefore not true! Sure, they have some moral equivalent proverbs and professions, but believing that Jesus is God is not accepted and is heretical, deserving of death according to their beliefs.

As an atheist apologist which I think you are, in order to refute the truth of Jesus coming into this world, you would need to refute the historicity of the Bible or at least the event of Jesus’ birth. There are few atheist scholars who would make that claim. The Bible rings true in its historical settings, it rings true in it’s morality, and in the hope of eternal life that is intrinsic to all people. Yet it gives a reasonable pathway to salvation unlike every other religion. And it is the only religion with a Savior risen from the dead who brings light into the darkness of men’s hearts. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believes in Him will have eternal life. The promises of God are yes and amen. The problem of evil in the world, and all the other questions that those who sit in darkness ironically hold onto for dear life are addressed in the overarching salvation through Christ that is available to all who believe.

Don’t be fooled by Indenial James and The Dirty Diggers Smithers and Mr Burns routine. It started as a way to potentially avoid getting stung in the UK by Levenson, and now is a way of potentially distancing The Digger from any corrupt foreign practices troubles he may have should your authorities grow a pair and follow up on the NI UK corruption issues and fallout from the pending Brooks and Coulson convictions.

Lets face it – acting a bit mad, doddery and senile has worked in US courts in the past.

The Dirty Digger is still the venomous rat he always has been.

Why does the good that the Salvation Army do outweigh the death of a transwoman they left in the cold, to die of exposure on their doorstep? Because that’s what you’re asking me to accept.

All people are capable of good. There are good Islamic charities, too. What is the point of your picking out Christian ones? They’re no better, merely more affluent and influential in the world, despite their smaller numbers from other religions.

That doesn’t absolve any other factor that may have contributed to the situation. And despite your desire that all parents raise all children to think for themselves, the media still has an impact on what people think. If that were not true then all TV commercials would cease to exist. Fox News is one long TV commercial for right-wing extremism.