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and I won't believe it just because clearly delusional people say it.

According to various estimates, 50,000 Christian Palestinians reside in the West Bank and Jerusalem

Something tells me they aren't launching rocks, rockets, or going on raids to rape and kill as many Jews as they can.

this is not a crime in-and-of-itself

Of course not, it's the same thing for most crimes.

If I walk into a sporting goods store and purchase two ski masks and two hunting rifles, I have done nothing illegal. But if my intent when making that purchase was to give it to my two friends so they could rob a bank, I am now an accessory to burglary.

Actions are not taken in isolation. No where else in life would we excuse behavior on the basis of "if we eliminate the context sounding this act then there's no wrongdoing".

Nowhere.

just say "the soul is an inscrutable black-box" that animates human flesh

That would be to say that we know nothing about it. That is not true. I would be lying if I said that.

That's the point. They are. We are not. 2 different cultures. We usually restrict child sacrifice to the unborn. Not the walking around on 2 legs kind.

Because the law doesn't depend on whether the person succeeded in swaying the election. The act is what's (allegedly) illegal.  In the end there is no possible way to know whether this would have made the difference, so if that was a requirement the law would be unenforceable.

From what I'm understanding and being told is that the word theory is another word for fact .

1 book. 

1 religion. 

1 group. 

You asked me whether anyone did surveys to tell if the Stormy Daniels story would have made a difference.

So yeah, entirely irrelevant.

So...give me liberty AND death? Yep, very different cultures...

What the soul learns is what the thing is. 

You’ve mastered the non-sequitur.

We need to seek advice from a Bee.

If one can die a martyr in Islam, their place in paradise is assured. 

I have come to the conclusion that they dream of living in a world devoid of Jews and a Jewish homeland— even if it means the destruction of their own earthly lives and the lives of their children, sadly.

It is common in the western world yet misguided for us to project our own liberal, humanistic values onto other, vastly different cultures. A Muslim warrior once boasted, “We value death the way you [westerners] value life.” If one can die a martyr in Islam, their place in paradise is assured. 

A soul does what it does. Its "motivation" as you call it ( I would call it "what it does") is to know and to will. It is designed to know and to will. nothing more.

The soul does not have "experiances" as I think you mean it here. Experiances are something our brains and our bodies have. Our soul simply knows and either wills or does not will to act upon the concept that arises from the image in the mind which has its principle or origin in the senses.

  It is odd how they have anything to with each other. 

I'd  start believe in god and just leave it at that .

Sure, like war or human trafficing. 

Brother….. for the hundred time.. SCIENTIFIC THEORY is a fact yes. The word “theory” outside of science means something else.Scientific theory is a term which is used by scientists to explain BODY OF FACTS AND WHAT they mean. 

Your brain produces an image and the soul takes that, unites it to itself, thus giving us understanding (i.e. intellectual knowledge) and from that the will chooses to act or not to act.

No. I am suggesting it spirit is different from anything material, as the word implies, and it has the ability to interact with what is more fundamentally in things, namely what they are and not what they are made of.

Not really. I could call myself an atheist all day long, if I believe in a god I'm just being dishonest

Second and more importantly, they didn't say it was Russian disinformation, they said it has all of the hallmarks of Russian disinformation. Those are two completely different things. 

So do you have a straight face when you type these things?

That's irrelevant to whether it's a crime. We have campaign finance laws for a reason and many politicians have faced severe penalities for violating them.

Doesn't matter if it would make a difference. Congress and the FBI would not survive a "legal interpretation" which claims that any attempt to hide information from the public is defrauding the American voter. (also there is no immunity so all these people can be guilty even if their job is to keep secrets).

This world isn’t just imperfect, it’s odious, vile, and the idea that humans have had to put up with over 10,000 years of unending painful suffering through disease an illness that we’ve only been able to cure for the last 100 years is frankly sickening.

You only need one. If you've joined any religion, you've joined the wrong religion. 

None. When you think about what the truth is, you either think it to say what is true or false or you don't.

Instead, we should strive to promote a society that values individuality, and cooperation; and that recognizes the importance of working together towards shared goals.

I think that you are actually describing human nature.

I suppose that the natural opposite would be individualism and therefore anarchy.

And I'm not sure if that would not be as dangerous, if not more so.

I suppose that the answer would be total social re-education.

But how on Earth do you implement absolute subservience without absolute tyrannical leadership.

I believe whether humans have free will or not is irrelevant. I've had a similar conversation about human value. It's not a matter of whether humans have intrinsic value, but whether we should act as though humans have intrinsic value.

The second is based on the preservation of systems that are necessary for a multitude of reasons (safety, profit, etc.). If I violate a policy at my job and am not punished that will encourage others to violate it as well, which in turn will result in harm to the company regardless of whether my individual actions resulted in any immediate harm.

That's how the Bible presents it and it's universal. 

A much more worthwhile conversation I think is what should the term atheist should be thought to mean.

then it literally means without the theory, practice, or doctrine

context of a specific culture that god

Atheism is what it is.

A term generally used to define the non adherence to popular deistic/theistic ideologies..

Though as ever, if one deconstructs the idea and expands upon definition, then the loose adherence to any social idea could be regarded as being theistic.

So in terms of the Biblical magician, I am atheistic.

But in terms of a GOD principle, I am open minded.

It all depends upon how one arranges words.

The Bible mentiones many gods. Some real, some not, some supernatural, some not, some creators, some not, some just idols - wood and stone. 

That may be what atheism is to you, and most of the militant atheists I've encountered online, but it doesn't make sense to me and it isn't what atheism has always been. Basically what you're saying is that only Christians, Jews and Muslims are theists and that isn't at all true. BK said somewhere, jokingly I assume, that he/she/it was theist because he believed in Thor. People who believe in gods are theists. It doesn't have to be anything but a god and a god can is anything or anyone that is venerated. I don't see how anyone with even a cursory knowledge of the Bible doesn't understand that. It seems just the thinking of an ideologue.  

do you believe that software is magical ?

No.

uncreated and uncaused

I never said that, nor implied it.

Abstinence is a form of sex

Is Physicality the only fundamental similiarity? If so how do you prove that?

Because I think there are other fundamental similarities by which to interact that affect something physical.