Do you think it is time to stop the bickering between us?

I'm certainly not going to offer to be friends with people who want me dead or imprisoned. Root out the psychotics from their party then maybe we can talk. I promise not to bicker with anyone who doesn't deserve it (ie, is trolling), how's that?

Would love to... problem is one side wants to have individual liberties and the other side doesn't and as our liberties keep going away the time to fight is now. The two parties are at fundamental opposites right now and this country is being dragged into Socialism (yes I know exactly what Socialism is) and most Americans don't want to leave the system (Capitalism) that made us so strong and powerful in a very short period of time.

I really don't think this argument will be ending any time soon unfortunately =(

Good question, I think. One thing we can do, I believe, is to recognize how interdependent we often are in practice, if not in theory. Atheists & religious people of all kinds often work in the same capitalist corporations, and are employed by the same government bureaucracies. We have to cooperate in those settings to get the job done and often enough we DO cooperate pretty well. In my office, for example, I know that we have at least one Jehovah's Witness, at least one Catholic, some Protestants I could mention, several outspoken atheists, and in the past the workforce has included Mormons and Jews. I don't know about Muslims, but we may have had 1 or 2 of them, also. The office also includes blacks and whites, gay and straight people, Republican conservatives, Democratic liberals and at least one political leftist (me). We get along fine, AFAIK. We know we have to work together to get the job done, and we do. I think the same principle applies in many political settings: at least the Democratic Party includes people of several different religious leanings, and I think this is also true for the Republicans to some degree. In the GOP, for instance, there are some atheist libertarians as well as conservative Christians, both Protestants & Catholics, and also some "neoconservative" Jews, both religious and secularly inclined. Our capitalist society has real faults, I think, but one of its good features is that the very same sort of de facto religious tolerance usually applies in the marketplace. Atheists and Christians, and also Jews, Muslims, Hindus, agnostics, Wiccans and people of other tendencies, often shop at the very same supermarkets. We also attend some of the same cultural events, buy the same cars, argue over the same Internet, go to some of the same museums, watch the same sporting events. Therefore, I think most of us are probably more tolerant than we think we are -- except maybe in R&S. :-)

Well, I'd be more than happy to stop it. Only problem is that while we can voice our opinion, the left is putting theirs into action and it is affecting us all. It is one thing to have an opinion. I respect that. It is something else entirely when you put that 'opinion' into affect and create devastation. For example, the left's opinion has been made 'solid' by ObamaCare. And as a result, operating costs for businesses in America are already rising by hundreds of millions of dollars. I'm a small business. My health insurance costs have just increased by about 25%. That represents thousands of dollars a year to me personally. Thousands! And what do I get for those thousands? Nothing. Not a gosh darned thing. And for those hundreds of millions? What are these U.S. companies getting? Nothing. Not a gosh darned thing. I don't blame the insurance companies. Given the new taxes, fees and the extraordinary new obligations that have been mandated for them, they have no choice.

Now, I'm sorry that this discord is upsetting you, but when their opinion manifests itself in my spending thousands and U.S. companies struggling in a recession are forced to spend hundreds of millions for nothing? Well, kinda, sorta pisses us off and it is tough to speak about the issue in kindly tones toward these freakin' idiots.

insults arent helpful but disagreeing is.

the worst thing that could happen is for all of the politicians to agree with one another. as long as there are two parties who fundamentally disagree, the argument is settled by the voters.

read animal farm.

This country works best when people disagree, but we need to respect each other. I'm sick of rude comments about things that have nothing to do with politics.

No.

It's a healthy outlet. I am glad to see the passion. If it weren't so, I would believe that nobody cared about the direction of our country...a very sad situation.

debate and criticism is fine, it's essential, but the hate stuff needs to stop, personal attacks, make believe stories, those are what hurts the political system

Debate is good for us, we have to find compromise. Name calling, labeling, and generalizing groups is ridiculous. Our president has succeeded at dividing this country, a leader does not divide.

As soon as you think you have both sides starting to reveal some manner of sanity they both start stabbing you from all directions.