Quote Originally Posted by P.E.N.G.U.I.N.
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GOOD SHOW, MAN!!!

Organized religion is bullllllll SHIT. Believe what YOU want to believe, and what YOU believe is right! Putting blind faith in the hands of other men (writers of the sacred texts), is NOT a sign of intelligence! You recycle your prayers, recycle your written beliefs, CREATE NEW ONES! If you happen to really be Christian, and believe that Jesus was God, then so be it! Don't go to church speaking the minds of others, stay at home and pray to Jesus! Tell him what YOU think, and what YOU feel, not what the writers of the Gospels or the Psalms or the Prayers want you to think and feel!
I'm sorry but if everyone in the world created a religion that suited them...k I'll stop there...listen to that. The "right religion" (if there is one) is essentially the "right answer to the question". Are you with me here? Ok, now what would happen if everyone created an answer based on what served THEM. We are truley a corrupt and self-centered people as it is, let alone if this mindset dominated our religious life.

I agree that you shouldn't put blind faith in the hands of other men (including those in the scientific community), but the thing is; I prayed to God to give me something, a guide if you will, to life. I prayed to know the answers and it led me straight (and I emphasize straight) to christianity. And you know what? It was only after I became a christian that I could accurately criticize my own beliefs. I don't believe in christianity because OTHER people tell me to, I believe in it because it has that "twist" to it that only real things have. From front to back it's the directions given to a lost race trying to get back to God. Every question I have about my life so far I have found has been experienced in some incarnation or another by someone in the bible.