Are you serious?

[AceArcher]

I just want to clarify, for me this discussion has not been about who are believers or unbelievers. It has been about the undeniable fact that everyone should live a moral and just life, regardless of whether they believe or not.

Saying to someone that chooses not to believe or that "sins", that you are a better person because you do believe and / or dont commit the same sin they do, is both hypocritical and bigoted. No one goes thru life without committing sin, not regular people or harvard grads.... no one.

Like i said earlier, I do believe that a good church can be of benefit. We do as a family fairly regularly attend church, especially sunday schools for our children. I am of the opinion that they should be able to learn of church teachings and then make up their own minds on being believer's or not.

However, when we start hearing things like god only loves christians, and its only people who kick in extra at the collection plate who get to spend eternity in heaven..... we tend to look for another church which has less bigoted minds.

Like i said before, If there is a god, and if when i stand before him and he judges me.... if then he bases his judgement of me upon whether or not i gave him lip service on sundays and helped the preacher buy a new caddy with my tithe.... then that's not really the sort of fellow i want to spend eternity with anyway.

If however he is the sort of god, who will judge me based on my action in life.. will judge me on how i treated my wife, children, my friends, my enemies, and my brothers & sisters... then good times and bad, failures and victories, i am ready to be judged and if he finds me worthy, would gladly spend eternity at his side.

Thats it for me on this subject matter...
Bless all of you, whether by god or not.