er maybe I shouldn't say that... because what you're saying about seeing the atrocities created in the "name of religion" and being turned off by it makes total sense... and on a humanistic level, it seems rational. However, l've found it not to be the case. I've found that what men choose to do with a truth, how it become manipulated, does very little in CHANGING the nature of the truth.

I've found that men have taken truths about Physics, Mathematics, Thermodynamics, Electrical Circuitry, Binary Code, Ect... and used these truths to make weapons of mass destruction.

Horrific.

However.

I havn't chosen to not believe in the truths of Physics, Mathematics, Thermodynamics, Electrical Circuitry, and Binary Code because of it. I simply see how it's been manipulated to an awful end.... but the truth of it doesn't change.



peace.





>Christian churches have been as responsible for "holy wars"
>as any other churches. The fact that people have used God as
>a justification for this, and only history has shown how
>terribly wrong they were, is enough to convince me not to
>follow someone who claims to interprent God's words and put
>them into action, and to convince me that that person is, in
>fact, fooling themself. Your "hate the sin, love the sinner"
>philosophy is at least somewhat tolerant, which is nice. But
>I think that historically we will come to the conclusion
>that homosexuality isn't wrong or "unnatural". It's not the
>norm, most people aren't gay, but there's nothing wrong with
>it. And since religious groups and leaders have been dragged
>begrudgingly into recognizing this by the rest of society (a
>struggle that will probably still take a few more hundred
>years before it is completely through), I feel that
>religious leaders are, in general, not the highest moral
>authorities, though they are often claimed as such. And I
>don't think religion offers the best moral guidelines
>anymore. I think as moral guidelines evolve, they will
>become more and more secular. And I really see no need to
>change my mind. I'm glad you have a philosophy of life that
>works for you, but it just doesn't make sense at all to me.