what believers accept without thinking

[TheoneandonlytrueGod]

Actually, I think that believing and thinking are antithetical concepts, but a couple of statements from my dark youth when I tried so hard to believe what really did not make sense come to mind.
1. The statement that God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son.  Even if you accept the bible as true ( your poor sods) how can you believe this.  In all the eons of time during which our eternal souls are supposed to have existed from the beginning, God let his son be born into a good, respected family on earth, where he lived for approximately 30 years.  Then he spent 3 years as an itinerant preacher.  His last couple of days were pretty terrible, but in reality not as bad as some of the days visited by his followers on people they thought did not toe the line of their particular dogma adequately or who did things thought to be witchcraft etc.  Then he ascended into heaven to sit upon the right hand of god.  So what the heck did god actually give?  He loaned his son for a short while then got him back.

2.  In the creed, the prayer says "whose service is perfect freedom"  Just plain nonsense.

We could find such nonsense ad nauseum.  People accept blindly without thinking.  Also, why must we respect others' religious beliefs?  I do not respect their beliefs even though I respect their right to them, no matter how inane.

Way but what the hell does 'SOD' mean? What's with sodding this and sodding that or sod off? I know it is a British term and I've been there but still haven't the foggiest notion what it means. Would please enlighten me.