runner,

"Yea Poirot first to admit I do it poorly at times. I do find it strange however that many including yourself want to hold me to Christ's teaching when claiming not to believe in Him yourself."

What's it got to do with anything what I believe?

I was merely noting that your reason for calling God "He" was because Jesus taught it...and that your approach on this forum doesn't appear to be in line with his other teachings.

That's all.

Runner, I understand you live your life according to what is written in the Holy Bible and your, and like-minded people, interpretation of what is written in this over the centuries cobbled together, many times translated, book.

I've had the good fortune to meet and be able to speak with people who also call themselves Christian. The main difference between you and those I've come to know and respect, who have dedicated their lives to serving Christ is their sheer humility and unconditional love. This is inspirational and an example of a way of living a good life, like the doctor who is the subject of this thread.

So, when you flippantly respond to Poirot: 'Yea Poirot first to admit I do it poorly at times. I do find it strange however that many including yourself want to hold me to Christ's teaching when claiming not to believe in Him yourself.' Actually, Yes, we do expect and have a right to hold you to do just that. You hold up Christ and His Teachings as the example to live by to others, before you dare do that, look at your yourself first and judge yourself first. Your disdain for others, who I presume you believe to also be God's creation is just dripping of the page.

I ask you: who are you to judge another human being? Who are you to determine for another 'you are playing God, but you are not?'

You are a self-righteous zealot. No different in essence to many other self-righteous zealots creating fear, hatred and abomination in this world. All purporting to speak in God's name.

Onya yvonne, agreed in full. Nowhere in the bible is there any praise for the intelligence of man.

Runner, are you representative of your religion or are you an embarrassment to it? Why is it that you who think you know what god hates, serves a hateful god?

'I ask you: who are you to judge another human being? '

And then from the judge herself

'You are a self-righteous zealot'

Yea Yvonne its fine for you to spew out your hatred on me simply because you lefties are brainwashed into demonising anyone disagreeing with some of your abhorrent beliefs such as killing the unborn. Ever thought of getting a run on Q&A?

'No different in essence to many other self-righteous zealots creating fear, hatred and abomination in this world. '

sound to me like some of the self righteous gw zealots who have made millions through fraud you are describing.

To be criticized by the likes of you for pointing out the truth about abortion or the promotion abhorrent lifestyles more than likely means I am on the right track. You might call my opinions an abomination Yvonne but I have no faith in your predictable views.

Calling evil evil is not judging another human being Yvonne. That you can be sure of.

'Runner, are you representative of your religion or are you an embarrassment to it?'

Give up while you are behind Herenow

There is an inevitable corollary to engaging with the likes of Runner, his ilk and kith. It is the default, the fall-back position, the silence enabler, the vacant-eyed thin-lipped resolution of a cornered mind unable to satisfactorily resolve an inconveniently frequent internal conflict.

The more discomfitting the martyrdom for Runner, the more his smug self-approval is confirmed. The greater the odds and suffering, the more elevated the euphoria of his god's approval. Thus is willful ignorance elevated to highest virtue.

Of course science was the overwhelming force in Brantly's recovery. It is, or will soon be, the only fully and factually evidenced way such recovery could have happened. For two millennia and longer faith has claimed only it knows the only truth. But still, after all that time, the same old story.

Science advances, improves, refines, conquers. Faith would have none of this. It was invested with a bronze-age "truth" that is immune from scientific revisionism. Thus, again, is willful ignorance elevated to highest virtue.

Runner, an inspiration you are not.

Romans 14:10
You, then, why do you judge your brother or sister? Or why do you treat them with contempt? For we will all stand before God's judgment seat.

It is your contempt Runner, for others that is hard to take.

Philippians 2:3-11
Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men

It is your conceit Runner about yourself.

This is from the book by which you purport to live your life.