[TheRealVille]

You refused to explain those religious beliefs, yet you show no restraint when commenting and questioning everybody else's religious beliefs. The founders of this country, even those who did not strongly identify with the Christian faith, generally believed in a Creator who endowed humans with certain rights that governments had no moral right to deny. Yet, you ridiculed even the notion that God had a hand in creating the universe.

My simple question to you was what the god whom you believe in does and if you do not know him by his works, then what makes you believe your religious beliefs are superior to those of the Christians whom you ridicule?

Yet you refused to answer those simple, straight forward questions while demanding that another poster answer your question. It's fine if you do not want to answer a question but it is wrong to, at the same time, harass another poster for refusing to answer your question.

I generally stay out of religious discussion, except to defend religions against attacks. Freedom of religion is one of our most important rights in this country and it is wrong to personally attack people over their religious beliefs, whatever those beliefs may be - as long as they do not infringe upon the rights of others.

I don't know exactly what I believe about God, probably more of a deist view than anything. But, I can promise you I'm not an atheist, although you call me that because I don't believe in your idea of god or how god should/does work. A god I believe in would have to agree with science. For the most part, the biblical god does not, at least to most of it's followers. I do have a pretty hard time accepting what christians think, because most are just as full of disdain for other peoples beliefs, as I am theirs. I was raised in a christian home, went to church every time the doors were open, and saw all the hypocrites two days a week. I guess you could say my disdain for the christian religion has evolved. If christians wouldn't try to force their views on the government, and everybody else that disagrees with them, I wouldn't have a very hard time with that religion. Then you have the new style churches that are all about taking peoples' money(think TBN), and building multimillion/billion dollar enterprises, off of the backs of peoples money, then jet around the world on a church owned jet. What kind of god would let that type of church grow? I think we can all agree on the farce of these types of churches. Like I've said many times on here, if the republicans would get out of the bed of churches(the main reason I switched politics), they couldn't lose an election. I kind of think like Ghandi, " "I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." You take up for others infringing on the rights of christians, yet when it's in reverse you are ok with it, I'd say mainly because of having the same politics as them. Anything else? I'll tell you what, you have your religion, I'll have mine. You believe in your god, and I'll believe in mine. Freedom of religion can also be used as freedom from religion too, right? I'll promise to be more tolerant of others beliefs, as long as they are tolerant of mine. This post is all over the board, but I am just rolling from the hip, posting thoughts as I they come to mind. I started to send this as private, but remembered anything said in private will be posted in open forum anyway, with you.