Christian answering questions too!

[PETE_ROSE]

No question here but I do sense a bit of hostility.  I cannot help but empathize with many of your points; I surely desire the evidence to me more profound at times.  I will not address the fate of the billions of others on the planet, but I will note that each of us in our mind need to ask ourselves, given the information we have, and giving due diligence and more than a cursory examination, do we believe the assertions of Christ and the bible to be true.  Based on that answer proceed according to one's own chosen path.

She has quite a bit of hostility. She was recently fired by a Christian who discovered she is an atheist. Hard to blame her.

If I may presume to speak for her, I think her point had more to do with the fact that the "truth of the scriptures", which each individual Christian comes here and asserts separately, is in fact myriad and diverse, with many groups thinking the other groups are going to hell and only their version being right... the other group says the same about the first, of course. What we see as nonbelievers is that all the religious people of the world think the others are all wrong (except their little clique, however big it may be), and they all make mutually-exclusive claims. The obvious conclusion is that it's all made up. 

We, too, have "given due diligence and more than a cursory examination". Not only the members of the board, here, but atheists in general, tend to know significantly  more than Christians do about their scriptures and the history thereof.

I started to link you to an NPR article about the study that showed this, but I decided a Christian source was better. Here y'go.

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/201...s-that-bad

Such a true article.  However, I would not have disagreed with you prior to reading it.  I have found the same to be true myself.  I find just as you have, that atheists and also many Muslims surprisingly, are substantially more knowledgeable on the scriptures.