Thing is, you assume we're all atheists for not agreeing with you, but I have yet to make a single assumption about anyones person. I accept that everyone must follow their own sense of truth, and even if that truth disagrees with my truth, I understand that we are both equally right to believe in what we do, because it's entierly based on perspective.

Myself I study Buddhism, and the Dhamma, teachings that literally tell me to not believe it if it doesn't seem right to me. At the same time it also talks about how desire, and how it breeds attachment to life. We must let go of our metapysical desires if we want to be free. To desire xxx years in paradise is the wrong motivation to be a moral person. This is my belief, atleast, and like I keep saying I appreciate that it is mine and mine alone. Others may have similar understandings, and others might disagree totally, but everyone has the right to their own freedom of thought. To deny people this by aggressive preaching is to deny them a chunk of their freedom as humans, EVEN IF YOU THINK YOU'RE SAVING THEIR SOULS.

Once a monk pestered Buddha about philosophy of cretion and existance. Buddha tol that monk that he was as a wounded man who would not recive medical tretment until he learned the name and location of man who harmedd him. Those who refused to live by peace beacause of differnces over why we are here and what put us here would die on the hospital bed beforethey got this useless information. What differnce does it make how we got here, greif suffering and pain would still exist.

That god will threaten to make this suffering eternal should I chose to base my life on the reduction of suffering seems abusurd to me. But hey, tommorw will bring a new perspective. I reserve my judgment of others, eternally. I make my opinions, but my no means give them the basis of absoloute truth.

-Cock