It was Ron's point that he does not need religion or belief in God to have virtue. A fair enough point which I know is to some extent true.
I know a little about your thinking and visions of, specifically, the little Resistance or revolution to save what you deem to be democracy, which shows your conviction and agreement that some of us have a plan for bettering this world. I think that fits with the atheist vision pretty good, a vision that consists of some plan of our own making.
Of course you belong to the group I am creating for this little essay, and people like you are a major element of contemporary culture. Maybe Bulletproof's sarcasm about not needing the Sky Daddy would fit as well. I could paint the theme with a Kicky, pretty sure there is enough ego there to demonstrate the point of the human belief in ourselves and our plans. I could probably draw out some of my own thinking and throw myself under the bus as one with that exact failing, if it be a failing.
Anyone who insists on crafting an imaginary God in their own heads would fit as well. Anyone who denies any specific concept anyone else has of "God" with the one essential feature of the God of Israel as presented in the Old Testament, a distinct character who has made a covenant, a promise, with Man, would fit as well.
Don't take it as an insult, really. You do fit in the class of folks we believe are human. In the class of folks the Born Again folks call sinners/children of God/unbelievers in that specific God who is the focus of their belief.... in their case, Jesus.
My idea of "God" is distinctly different, doctrinally, from the Trinity, or from Jesus, the Son of God. Because the Man with the Plan in my concept which I am laying out here is the same character as presented in the Old Testament with the tetragrammaton YHVH or JHVH.
Anyone, the whole kit and caboodle of folks with any kind of vision of their own perfect world, any believer in world peace, in world governance, in our government, or even the evening news would fit as well.
My experience which I refer to above as my basis for a rational belief that there exists a God essentially of the character of Jehovah is here presented as an alternative to our crusades for political salvation laid in the cradle of our own wishes.
I mention Karl Marx because his specific doctrine that religion or belief in God is "the opiate of the masses" and is a large factor in our contemporary culture and specifically Democrat Party themes, and our educational system's doctrines around evolution and values.
You deserve to get the mention because you have such strong convictions that you are right. I could hardly even talk about the Trump phenomenon without discussing the Grand Canyon scaled rift between Trump voters and the DumpTrumpsters.
Hardly any of the Trump critics, Colton included, Mormons generally included, Mitt Romney enthusiasts included, who are dismayed to see the political engines of social progress being trashed by outsider Trump, really understand the specific beliefs of religious folks who are indeed comfortable with what Trump is doing even if he is one of the greater sinners of our kind in any respect, because he is specifically doing what he is doing.... unhitching the apparatus of the government gone amok.
Trumpsters might be another group of us humans who have our own kind of vision, but the ideas of the American Way, of American Exceptionalism, of in fact belief in our Constitutional Principles of Limited Government as some kind of Divinely Inspired vision of human liberty, are specifically what Trump has chosen to play his horn to.
For all your work in here to criticize Trump, I could hardly discuss the subject of political visions of human salvation without discussing your points in great detail.
