Unfortunately, Max, a lot of people see their religion as the absolute truth and therefore
who they are on a very deep level, not as a choice. If you criticise their religion they take it as a direct criticism of them and therefore think it direspectful.
We really have to be careful not to offend and hope that others aren't offensive to us.
btw I'm Roman Catholic by birth - but probably not a good one! I have failed to find anything offensive to religious belief here. If God isn't big enough to cope with scepticism and disbelief, then she isn't God.
Oh, you didn't answer her question. Did you miss it?
Of all the reason's Christianity could be wrong, that's the reason you choose to stand with?
Why not? Most of the other reasons have already been stated here! 
I'll agree with Emmy! Christianity is wrong because it hijacks the festivals of other beliefs and calls them holidays (Holy-Days).
I'd celebrate it the same in June..... here comes Santa Claus on his horse and wagon bringing gifts for the kids..... he has no beard because it is so hot..... and he is thin too.
Actually, no. Christmas in the southern hemisphere IS celebrated in the equivalent of June - and (big & fat & jolly) Santa has the full Coca-Cola outfit, COMPLETE with beard, all the shops have snow scenes and there are wooden snowmen for the kids to stick in the garden....
I don't really have much to say here other than I read parts of the bible a few weeks ago, and I found much of it thoroughly disturbing. I don't understand how people can claim to be proud of living their lives according to what this book says.
Most Christians prove that the less you read the bible, the easier it is to believe. 
So that is the reason the Catholic Church used to forbid lay people from accessing the bible
Erkolos - DON'T READ IT!
The whole point of this thread is to concentrate all the pro/anti religious stuff that used to infect other threads. Before this thread you could hardly find a thread to read that didn't warp into religious wars, so please - leave it alone! It is a ghetto thread for stuff that no-one else wanted to read.
Perhaps you could leave your guard dogs here so it doesn't ever escape!
You know, it's AMAZING how little those who claim to know the Bible really know. Most people know David killed Goliath but he also used the giant's own sword to hack off his head as a trophy and Sodom and Gorramah were destroyed for not being charitable. And no where in Revelation does it say that "666" is completely evil.
I have had arthritis for about thirty years. I used to keep it under control with exercise and occasional mild anti-inflammatories. Unfortunately, now I'm on blood thinners for my heart I can no longer take anti-inflammatories without risking severe internal bleeding.
So when my neck joints started to get sore I could do nothing about it and my poor neck muscles went into spasm just before Christmas. I only wear that collar when I'm out in the car or walking on rough ground, as the pain would otherwise prevent me getting any travel or exercise! I just put up with the pain indoors.
aaw poor tigger!
*hugs*
Thank you! Tiggers like hugs!
Here's an interesting post I came across on another site.
...But not all propositions are created equal. It is indeed true that some cannot really be disproven - for example, the claim "a black swan exists" cannot be disproven. To do so would require examining every spot in the universe to make sure that such a swan did not exist, and that simply isn't possible...
Source: http://boards.historychannel.com/thread....4352105000
I have searched every spot in the universe for you (well, Adelaide, actually) and here is a Black Swan.
My family and I have fed flocks of them on the River Torrens.
Now, let's see if I can find a picture of God as easily.
If I said I found God in Adelaide, that presumably would not be as good a proof as the assertion that there are Black Swans aplenty there?
Funnily enough, when I was young the Big Bang was a leap of faith. Science was so sure that it had disproved the existence of a Creator, because it was sure that it could prove that the universe was eternal, infinite and static.
Ooops...
Oh Korrigan! That is sooo beautiful... *sigh*
THUD.*
*(Collapses in a heap of giggles and falls out of bed)
