[Moneyguy1]

TOny:

I respect all people who have an honest belief and do not use this belief to hammer others into submission. My sincere belief is that many religions may have part of the picture but none have it all. For one who reads the New Testament there is a passage that states something about Heaven having many mansions. Perhaps this means there are many different paths and different ways to get there.

Would a Creator deny an afterlife to anyone who was simply a good person? Would Heaven be that exclusive a club? To me that makes little sense for a loving Creator. And, the fact so many people think they are right and everyone is wrong is the reason that I separate the concept of religion from faith. Man created the first and as such, it has flaws.

I am not an athiest because to me it is the same as being a fundamentalist. It is a belief system in that an athiest denies the existence of a Creator as strongly as fundamental believers say that the Creator exists. The proof is in the root of the word "athiest" (against God). Agnostics are at least unsure and wise enough to understand that the issue is beyond the mind of man to resolve in a certain manner that can be measured and verified. I can respect that standpoint and understand it. I respect my athiest brethern, but the concept and why it is so strongly supported by some elude me. There seems to be a touch of fear in the denial.