[the truth]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

I'm not saying there aren't good messages in the bible or lesons to be learned; in fact, I said in my original post that the (truly) Christians friends that I do have are goodhearted, charitable people who I would say are clearly "better" for their faith. Not only that, I envy them that faith. It centres them, it grounds them, they have a sort of stability and an an immunity to chaos that I would love to experience.

However, I understand too much about the history and politics of organised religion to ever find that. It holds and teaches some wonderful lessons but it doesn't and never has made any sort of reasonable sense. It's a nice dream, in a world of countless nice dreams, but the truth is, it takes either indocrination from birth or traumatic experience to reach that level of belief. I didn't have the former, and I truly hope to never experience the latter.

Im not at that level of unquestioning belief in every word. Nor have I suffered any major trauma or indoctrination nor do I think for a moment the majority of the 2.1 billion Christians have either. I was merely inspired by great people and the Bible and Christ himself.