Politicians & Diapers should be changed often and for the same reason. [Mark Twain]

JOSHNMARDA, I disagree with you that believing in God is necessarily part of being human.  I believe that the creators of the human race intended for some human beings to not believe in any kind of higher power.  Some people believe in God and some people don’t.  It is just that simple, and I think that is exactly the way that “God” intended it.  But the mistake we are observing on both sides, is what I like to call “the golden rule gone wrong.”  All of the people like you who instinctively think there is a God, try to fit everybody else into your same mold.  Similarly all of the atheists who instinctively believe there is not a higher power, try to fit everybody else into their same mold.  But let us examine option “C”.  Maybe God purposely intended for different human beings to not all instinctively think the same way?  “Imagine that.”  Social conservatives who think it is their purpose in life to enforce their religion on everybody else, will never figure this out because they have been victimized by “the golden rule gone wrong.”  They think God intends for them to elect politicians who will pass laws which force everybody to do unto others as you would have them do unto you.  This type of thinking is not much better than what we are seeing from the Radical Islamic Fundamentalists.