*oldblue:

If you've read about other religions, can you ignore the role of Jihad in Islam? Or the era of conquest in which Yahweh ordered his people (the Jews) to conquer and drive the natives out of the holy land?

I understand that you're Christian, which is why I took the time to point out many examples of other religions to you in my posts. Please don't disregard them.

And when you say the Godless people are those who use religion to destroy other religions, again, I say you are wrong, because many religions order their followers to either destroy or convert other religions. You're still ignoring the facts.

"Godless" people have no material need to subvert or convert followers of other religions if they're not offering a religion of their own.

And you're still completely ignoring the last point. You should read religious books for other religions to see where the differences are.

I've studied some Islam, some Hinduism, and I've read about many other ancient religions as well as current ones. And personally, I think among all religious writings, those concerning Christ himself and Buddha come closest to preaching the most humane and human of religions.

The God of the Old Testament is not the same as the Christian God (I've gone over this ad nauseum in the early parts of this thread). If you read carefully, you will see this.

The Bible is not all true in relation to modern Christianity.

This is not saying it contains willful falsehoods. Instead, this means that the older parts of the Bible should serve as a historical document, showing us the evolution of the Christian morality, and its divergence from the older Judaic faith.

I believe the basic tenets of Christianity are quite valid. But to hold up portions of anceint books predating Christ and not written by him or his immediate followers as Gospel is a fundamentalist fault that distances them from the rest of the faith, and is a cause of much strife, suffering, warfare, and death.