(October 19, 2012 at 11:10 am)Hoptoad Wrote: When I packed in Atheism all them years ago and started on this path, all religions where open to me and looked at, studied. I just picked at that time what I thought was the easiest one, truth is I was led to it.
See?
The next cause for religion after birth is personal choice. Isn't it really weird how christians say (at least some) 'we know this is the one true religion. Other religions say good deeds merit eternal life; they do not. Only by accepting Jesus can we be forgiven'. Uhhh...don't you think that the whole 'accept Jesus and be saved' thing actually makes your religion sound less credible? Lets' see, given your ideas of human's 'sinful' nature, which religion do you think is more likely to be genuine, and which was created by self-serving humans?
1. You must do good things to warrent eternal life.
2. Accept Jesus and you don't have to do anything else!
John Adams Wrote:The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.
