christians, who needs them?

[Sam]

A christians idea of logic is nothing more than senseless dribble and delusional thinking ... You can slap a christian in the face with all the logic and reason known to man and he will still choose faith in the absurd!!.Christians,who needs them !! Lmoa

I should probably play the apologist here, I feel we all too easily slip into pigeon holing "Christians" or "Theists" as one entity as chatpilots post does. I know many "Christians" and people of other religions who have a very logical mind and can debate on the stories of the bible, ethics and modern Christian views very eloquently and I know many who base their faith on a wider spiritual belief. My point is a large proportions of people of faith do not believe word for word the dictats of their respective holy books and it's important to bear that in mind.

On a slightly different note, it occurs to me that these same people who claim to be "Christian" or "Muslim" etc... but have their own view on religous observances and traditions must at some point no longer exist in that religion ... surely if they believe that they are given the word of God but choose to interpret it otherwise they move away from their own religion? I've alwayd wondered where that distinction lies, any ideas?

Thanks

Sam