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"for some reason society seems to think "it's in the Bible so that's what you're supposed to do."
When is the last time you ran into a person who said that?!  I don't even run into them in my church, and my church is sitting on a yellow-striped Religion Zone.  Nobody speaks about religion on any non-yellow-striped territory in Pierce County.
Obama doesn't order military strikes because it's in the Bible so that's what he's supposed to do.  George W. Bush emphatically does NOT believe that the Bible is inspired and he didn't liberate Iraq because he thought the Bible told him to.  John Kerry and Hillary Clinton did not vote to approve the Iraq war because it was in the Bible.
FDR didn't go into WWII because he thought the Bible told him to.  Abraham Lincoln didn't fight the Civil War because he was a mind-numbed, mewling little churchgoer whose preacher told him to spend his Presidency on that bloodbath.  What incredible disrespect to them it is, to imply that American heroes were mindless idiots.
I don't know when the last time was, that America participated in a military operation because anybody thought the Bible said they should.  The only time you could even suggest the Bible was a proximate element in the motivation, would have been the Revolutionary War -- when men used the concept of "God-given rights" toward life, freedom, and happiness to throw off tyranny.
If that's all we think of the other side's position -- that they're drinking Kool-Aid -- then it's a drudgery to try to sort out the ideas being exchanged.  
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It's 2013.  Let's drop the "society obeys the Bible mindlessly" excuse, shall we.  We've used that as an ego defense for long enough.
In February 2013 ... IF society "obeys" anything, it is Hollywood it obeys.  The ever-looping images we get on our TV's and movie screens, now those things have an effect.
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