The hiddeness of god?

[The Omnissiunt One]

Again, the contradiction is gaping. If humans have such enormous capacity for delusion that far more than half of them are deluded into thinking there is a God, then how can we trust any sort of evidence? Who is to say that the evidence itself is not all a mass delusion?

Trouble is, religion isn't generally based on evidence. Most people just accept what they're taught. Relatively few have direct experiences of, say, the Virgin Mary, but these mean nothing, as they can be psychologically explained, and they contradict one another. Besides, subjective evidence is very weak compared to scientific evidence which is much more objective and universal.

In my experience and understanding Christianity is not an exclusivist faith. To be Christian is to be Christ-like, Christ's message was tolerance and love ergo, Christianity is simply about tolerance and love.

Oh, really?

'Leaving that place, Jesus withdrew to the region of Tyre and Sidon. A Canaanite woman from that vicinity came to him, crying out, "Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! My daughter is suffering terribly from demon-possession."

Jesus did not answer a word. So his disciples came to him and urged him, "Send her away, for she keeps crying out after us."

He answered, "I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel."

The woman came and knelt before him. "Lord, help me!" she said.

He replied, "It is not right to take the children's bread and toss it to their dogs." '(Matthew 15:21-28)

Sounds pretty exclusivist to me. Also, John 14:6: 'Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." '

Oh, and Buddhism is not a religion without a God. Buddha simply discouraged hsi followers from musing on God because the point of Buddhism is that everything is taken care of and you have nothing to worry about but yourself. If there's a God there's a God, if there's nto there's not.

I think you may have misinterpreted Buddhism there, but never mind. We could say the same about Christianity. Ultimately, it's just about saying your soul. Plus, if Buddhism isn't a religion, that decreases the number of people in your argumentum ad populum.