The Greeks use to live in fear that Zeus would throw a lightning bolt at them if they don't obey. You live in fear that God/Jesus will make you burn for eternity if you don't obey. What if they were right, and Zeus has you in his crosshairs? Just because you believe it now, doesn't mean you won't look like a fool to generations thousands of years down the line.
I don't understand why it's so important to box onesself in with Christianity. Is it too hard just believe that there's more to this life that we will never understand until the time it comes? If you can believe that simple aspect, you leave yourself the room to learn infinitely more...from infinitely more angles. I belive in something, but that something will never be Christianity, because what I believe in is even bigger than that, and I doubt that whatever that 'something' is would appreciate me trying to define it.
Those who speak against Christianity don't have to twist things around to fit their goals. It's more interesting to watch blind faith twist around a person's logic in the face of straight-lined reason.
99.9%? Really? In that case, Aesop's Fables as well as The Iliad are also stone cold fact.
Someone once asked Buddha, "How do we escape the summer's heat?"
Buddha replied, "Jump into a burning furnace."
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