I thought this thread was in it's death throes.

I didn't copy these "questions" you are referring to. So say again?

Here's the SITREP

I believe in God, I believe that Jesus is the Son of God, I believe that by having faith in this, I will have eternal life with God.

I don't mean to be sarcastic or flippant with this, if that is how it is appearing.

Those are genuine truths to me.

You believe what you want to believe.

The Constitution protects my beliefs under the 1st Amendment as "Freedom of religion"

There is NOTHING in the Constitution about "Freedom FROM religion"

only a clear separation of Church and State, which by the way I agree with.

In the meantime, you are now free to roam about the cabin on this thing called Life.

Put down the ganja and walk away, man.

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I fully believe, that people have the right to believe whatever they wish.

I never thought you were. My only critique would be that you state your beliefs as FACT.

This sound resonable in, that it sounds like you allowing other to believe as they wish.
But I wonder, what do YOU believe that a devout believer of the Koran will encounter after death. I wager, maybe wrongly so, that you believe that your vision is correct and true, while theirs if false and wrong. I can assure you that many Muslims believe you will burn in hell.

What sounds unreasonable to me, is why you would believe any of it?
Odds are you believe that way because you were raised to believe it.
Much like Plato's allagory of the cave.

In addition, that as you weigh religious beliefs against scientific believes, and you keep finding over and over and over that the religious beliefs are wrong, and quickly amended... to ad hoc adapt to what we actually know, that you might begin to DOUBT the religion itself.

Or,

Being that the first recorded bible was written some 60 years AFTER the death of Jesus, do you think per chance that it might have been altered or editorialized? It was written by humans, who are fallable. Both of these are UNDISPUTED by the christian faith.

So in summary, book about a dude, written 6 decades after his death by men who are fallable, and is full of inaccuracies and inconsistancies...
That just happen to be the preferred book of your culture, even though billions of other people have different books, from their culture...

And you don't see something amiss?

I agree, we should all believe what ever we want.
If you want to believe in the principles of the KKK ( I assume you dont), I say "go for it". I will think you are silly and wrong, but I don't doubt your freedom to do so.

In addition, I always get these sense of smug know-it-all ness from certain religious people. But oh well.

I don't know why you went on that rant. Nobody is challenging your freedom to believe your religion. I think the sentiment, is that there is no logical reason to believe in your religion. And that you most certainly can never state it as fact. Mostly because you don't have any facts, just faith.

Ixtellor

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