This is a Christian thread, not just an abortion thread, figure this is a good place to put my general beliefs for discussion and maybe avert the broiling storm here. Certainly better than IRC... sorry Wrex.
Anyway! It amazes me how different people of the same religion can be in their religion, and a prime example of this rests between Cryxis and I. Cryxis seems to take a very interventionalist view of God, whereas everything I believe points in the exact opposite direction.
I think God was responsible for the Big Bang, the creation of the universe, by setting the laws of the universe when it all started... and I think that with one exception, at least one for us humans (can't go speaking for any alien races that may be out there!), God entirely leaves us alone to function by the ways the world works, scientifically discovered, etc. I believe in evolution, billions of years of the universe, etc., I just think that God set events moving in the very beginning.
But this means that God isn't responsible for policing us, for death, natural disasters, any of that; what happens to us humans is purely by bad luck with nature or by consequence of the fact that we've got both sentience and free will-- though I of course wouldn't have it any other way, as I think a world where things happen because -we- did it is better than a utopia created by another, even God: it is our world, after all.
Now, I do believe in Jesus as the one, single exception to this rule, as I am Christian. Being the son of God is a pretty significant thing, after all, and someone as influential as Jesus would certainly be important enough for the one exception to the rule.
So... comments or criticisms, I guess?