[graciegirl]

It makes me sad when people use any means to be critical of others with different ways of looking at life and with different values and different creeds and different belief systems..

I was raised in a Christian/Jewish Community and we did just fine. I see nothing to gain for the devious ways people show their contempt for the religion of others.

Unless your faith directs you to kill someone in the name of your religion than keep it, cherish it, use it. Some of the very folks who say that we must value all people the same are some of the ones who disdain people of faith.

I don't always have deep faith, but it has been my good fortune to know many people who have been very good examples of the religion that they believe in.

In my opinion I think it makes for a kinder, better world to have people around who belong to an organized religion based on the Golden Rule.

Yes, there are people of religion who are cruel and mean, but not as often as people without religion make that point.

What happened to all the scientific atheists and agnostics that I knew so many of... that didn't pick on others about religion?.

We are all different and all valuable.

It really doesn't matter to me whether you believe in the literal interpretation of the Bible or believe the universe was created in seven 24 hour days or in billions of years, or whether you are a religious scholar or an atheist... or whether you are very smart or very not smart. It matters to me, at this stage in my life, if you are accepting and kind and warm.And you give real genuine hugs.