In Reply to: Re: sigh posted by WalkerJ on February 23, 2006 at 00:50:12:
in light of the fact that there are so few Christians left in the world. More people attend mosques in England than go to church. Europe's churches are museums. The U.S. is the last bastion of Christianity. Sure, it's crossed my mind. Still, it doesn't bother me. I've read your anti-Christianity logic before and it doesn't move me.
You know why? My faith is stronger than a bunch of tenets or supposed beliefs or secular logic. Those don't worry me one bit. I have never waivered from believing in a creator. I have always, always felt it takes more faith to believe in the big bang theory than it does to blieve in a spiritual creator. I look around me at creation and that's what keeps me believing. There is just too much in nature that is too magnificent to claim it was just happenstance. And after being pregnant and giving birth to a child - that to me was the biggest miracle I could have experienced. It's just too moving for me to believe that all these feelings mean nothing, we're just a bunch of beasts who lucked out when the earth evolved.
So for your happy moment where you think - aha, I've got that Christian silly belief on the run, forget it. I firmly believe that there is a God, whatever happens after this life - no one really knows. Has anyone ever left and come back? Maybe some near death experiences, but that's as close as we've come. If you're ever able to accomplish that, let me know what you find out. Otherwise, I'll believe as I do while I look to nature to confirm it for me.
Personally, I don't understand why you seem so happy to challenge Christian belief every step of the way. Do you do that for Buddhists, Jews, Muslims? Just curious.