[mikeinie]

Hi there, nice to meet you, I thought you were a troll with your first post, just coming in to stir things up, but I am glad to see you are not.

My opinion is that anyone who believes that their religion is the ‘right’ one and the only ‘truth’ are usually deluded, closed minded and intolerant of others beliefs and usually try to spend a lot of energy trying to convert other people to their faith. This is even more so who firmly believe in every word written in the book of their faith and interpret stuff written hundreds of years ago as law.

Man has been on the planet for hundreds of thousands of years, and there have always been religions. Egypt was once the greatest empire on this earth and they had very strong beliefs, and their Gods were as real to them as our Gods are real to us today. As was Zeus and all the other Gods and religions over the centuries.

The only truth, is that as a race of people, for some reason we need to believe in something greater than ourselves, (makes us feel important), we also need to fight and kill each other, and more people have done that in the name of religions than anything else ever.

In thousands of years from now there will be other beliefs and other Gods and they will continue killing each other in the name of their ‘truth’. That is what we do.

The sooner that mankind can get over this egotistical need to believe that we have a special relationship with some eternal God, the better off we will all be.

Religion is one more thing that divides us all.