Reply #75: Enlighten me.

[LAGC]

I was part of a faith not all too different than your own for the first 15 years of my life. Went to Sunday school every week. I think I was pretty well informed of what my religion was all about. The problem is, the "answers" that my religion had about life raised more questions than it solved.

If God created everything, what created God?

If we all have Guardian Angels watching over us from birth, why do bad things happen to us still?

If Christ died for our sins so that only those who believe on him find salvation in the after life, what happened to all those people who died before Jesus was even conceived?

Little things like that just didn't add up. You seem to think religion deserves some sort of protection from logical analysis or science.

Religion is "revelation" as you put it. Revelation is nothing more than how we humans perceive certain events in our life. Perceptions that can be explained by science -- perhaps not to your satisfaction, but explained naturally still.

I simply don't see what the big fuss is over religion. Its a human belief system, an ideology, nothing more. Religions come and go as people accept new ideas. Christianity won't be around forever, arguably its already waning in the world as newer ideas like Islam have their (temporary) day in the sun. Who knows what religions will be around even 1000 years from now. Probably something that is only considered a "cult" right now.