Believe o matic

[Paddy]

Long time no see paulcs

[Brian Ellis]

Originally posted by KvHagedorn
Most of the people who have shown their results here are winding up with "secular humanism" on top. I have also noticed that the people here who are atheists are much more likely to say "I'm an atheist" than religious people are likely to talk about their beliefs. It's just an observation. For example, I know you are Jewish and Jammrock is Mormon and that's about it. By comparison, a whole slew of people here have said they are atheists, and it makes me think that religious people feel like they cannot talk about their beliefs because this large mass of anti-religious people will talk them down. I would like to hear more positive thoughts on religion than the standard diatribe about it causing more wars than anything else, blah blah, etc. etc.

Perhaps those of us with a faith are more tolerant of those with other faiths, or none at all. This may be that we do not have a belligerent attitude that our faith and only our faith is the "correct" one, because we are aware that all religions are a man-made interpretation of the Truth and each is correct for that person. I have travelled widely and have observed religion at work in many faiths and have been in houses of worship of most of them. What I am most intolerant of is religious intolerance and, I am sorry to say, you have displayed more than a fair share of that. This is probably the reason you have developed the chip on your shoulder, whereby you feel you are being persecuted for having expressed your opinion. Many others and I have also declared the tenets of our faith on more than one occasion but I most certainly do not feel attacked for having my personal faith. But then, I have never attacked Islam, Jewry, Latter-day Saints, Jehovah's Witnesses, atheism, agnosticism or anything else. They may not be for me, but they are just as valid for those who practise them as Anglicism is for you.

IOW, from the wisdom of my years, live and let live -- and have the happiest of New Years.