Reply #28: faith per se I can understand

[Djinn]

ie faith that there is something "out there" but what I can't fathom -and I really have tried is subscribing to ANY religion.

How do deists know which bits of their holy books to follow and which bits to assign allegory status to? which of the contradictory gospels is the "right" one?

How does someone "beleive in what Jesus said" (Christianity being an example based on my being brought up in predominantly culturally Christian societies - my family being hopelessly secular for some generations now)

I just don't see how any of the monotheistic ones atleast can possibly make any sense (don't know so much about other religions)