[AccyLass]

Originally Posted by Gayle

You see this is where religion starts to bother me. I'm perfectly happy for you to believe in God or for someone else to absolutely be sure that there isn't one but why this need to 'convert' everyone?

This is when conflicts start to occur. Can you honestly say that your preaching will help the world's wars, poverty, floods, aids, etc - religion causes the majority of them (obviously not floods)! What right have you got to go to any other country and tell them that their religion isn't as good as yours so they need to join you? No one has that right! Every religion is equal but zealots like you obviously don't believe that.

I had missionary's knock on my door the other night - asking me if I would be interested in hearing about their religion and what God can do for me. Well you know, if there is a God then I'm 100% sure that he will see that I'm a good person doing the best I can and I don't think he'll reject me at the gates of heaven just because I haven't chanted his name in unison with 100 other people each week. And that applies whether it's God, Mohammed or Buddha up there - he'll have a pretty good idea of what I'm up to if he's all seeing.

All this need to prove that your religion is bigger and better than any other and that it's the only way to true enlightenment is out of order. Let's just say I was a devout Buddhist, don't you think I might be a touch offended by someone coming to the door and saying that your religion is better than mine and the only way to enlightenment is to follow your religion?

Nicely put!