Man... I really did not want to get into this discussion again, but oh well... guess I asked for it haha
As I have matured as a human being(still an evolving process
), I have come to the understanding that the more I learn... the less it seems I really know.
A fundamental issue I have with most all religions is the fact that EVERYBODY thinks they are right... and EVERYBODY else is wrong... this human desire to claim "ownership" on a concept of understanding of a higher being is, quite simply, a tool for men to control men.
Religion is man's feable attempt to explain, CONTROL, that which is not his to do so. Since the beginning of a thinking man, we have record of our ingrained genetic desire to label something that we've come to call "religion". I will not go into the pre-Abrahamic religions now, but as for what most of us now recognize... Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are all based on the same idea.
... allow me to say this again.
Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are ALL BASED ON THE SAME IDEA.
... allow me to break this down for some of you even further...
IF YOU HAD BEEN BORN IN IRAN YOU WOULD VERY LIKELY BE A MUSLIM NOW AND THEREBY HATE CHRISTIANS YOU DUMMY.(Yes I am talking to you)
BUT... You were born HERE, in America.... so you are smug in the fact that YOU are "protected" in your beliefs, and will have "everlasting life", as for the rest of BILLIONS of "non-believers" accross the world... "GOD" will send them to hell to burn in eternal damnation because they have not accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour...
... Yep.... that makes complete sense....