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And the situation is not limited to the Seventh-Day Adventist church...

"Why our children don't think there are moral facts"- from the New York Times http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/03/02/why-our-children-dont-think-there-are-moral-facts/?smid=fb-share&_r=o If all moral judgments become opinions people will only do what is best for themselves. If they don't get caught, anything goes. Even from a secular standpoint, I doubt this is the goal the educators have in mind. Brings to mind the Social Contract by Rousseau and some of the philosophical statements made when this country was founded. How about the fact that without law society deteriorates and if we live in a society where it is okay to steal the possessions of others our own possessions are not safe. How about the fact that people live longer and healthier when they have social support and that those who habitually lie steal and hurt others get less social support because people don't want to be around them. The Common Core standards as described here appear to do away with any objective morality and make religion an opinion. I guess the founders of this country were wrong when they wrote the following, since they said it was a self evident truth that we were created and endowed by are Creator. The Common Core says it is not true if you cannot prove it it is only an opinion- there are no self evident truths. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. Of could it be that overzealous educators have gotten ahead of themselves.

Fox is not news it is propaganda for so call Christians who hate, the 47%, blacks, Muslims, homosexual, Latinos, women rights and on and on. They don't realize that people have a right to choose how they believe. Adventist go around bragging that they are the remnant but hang around first day folks and lift up their political ideals over the Commandments. Many of the Christians are bigots, evil monger, liars, racist and prejudice. They act just like ISISL and they do terrorize and kill using their guns. I do not agree with abortions, or homosexual acts, but Christians have oral sex just like animals and this is abomination to THE MOST HIGH as well. They do not want to talk about what they do but talk and terrorize other on what they do. The Tea Party movement is full of bigots, it not about working together. Instead do what they want or shut down the government, causing people to lose their pay check. Take Ben Carson, that I know when he had nothing and ate at my table! Acting and saying foolish things! We as Adventist are not suppose to be in politic at all due the government is suppose to be separate from the church! Fox can lie and get away with it because they have no sense of kindness and morality. I will tell you this I will pray for others but watch how they attack me! Happy Sabbath and be bless!

Someone will cry foul, but that is the practical result of atheism and evolution. If there is no God/Creator, then truth/morality is relative and just a matter of opinion. That's my opinion.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/P5_Msrdg3Hk

What i see over and over is that we are dependent on the personal work of the Holy spirit to be able to understand and appreciate those who are inspired by that same Spirit in warning, reproving, teaching, and leading.

We may have expectations of others, and be truly surprised and grateful when they actually meet them. The lower our expectations of others, the less disappointed we will be when even those are not met.

Without a foundation of honesty and respect for the lives, property, and rights of others, this country is circling the toilet, which will soon be flushed. We all know where the contents of toilets lead...

I don't think it's so much about guilt as simply about perspective - and the avoidance of ignorance. It's when someone decides they are in a position to criticise others for something that it's as well to ensure that they are not guilty of the same thing. Some facets of Islam - small ones - are unquestionably violent today. Most factions of Christianity are not - unless, for example, American wars are taken to be Christian wars. I don't believe they are, but some of President Bush 43's rhetoric would disagree with me on that point. I think that the article Pam shared is important because it says, among other things, "The Crusaders were trying to win back land taken over by the Muslims". Some of the Muslim violence today is very much about trying to take back land taken over by Israel. In the end, it's not about guilt, it's about recognising our shared humanity. No race and no religion is unalloyed good or evil. Our motives are mixed, and the reasons we say we do things are not always the real reasons. Accidents of history and wealth and security mean different people are violent at different times, and that needs to be resisted, but no-one is in a position to say "it's them but never us". It's us. Us humans.

please give specific references for studies involving brain scans used in proving or disproving the archetypal theories of Jungian (or even of non-jungian) analytic psychology...

It seems evident that you have read little or nothing of his life, his story and that you are just making speculative assumptions from you POV, relfecting your ideas, values and experiences rather than his.

And that also makes no sense, especially when put in the context of the actual facts of his life and the facts over which he ultimately parted company with conservative/fundamentalist evangelicals.

That makes no sense.