[troutman]

Originally Posted by MoneyGuy

Careful, there are Christians on this site. Some of us think it makes total sense. Not Tom Cruise, who is a wackjob.

Why is Christianity immune from examination? To an outsider, it is just as irrational as Scientology, Islam, Judaism, or any religion you can think of.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15566391/site/newsweek/

Despite a full century of scientific insights attesting to the antiquity of life and the greater antiquity of the Earth, more than half the American population believes that the entire cosmos was created 6,000 years ago. This is, incidentally, about a thousand years after the Sumerians invented glue. Those with the power to elect presidents and congressmen—and many who themselves get elected—believe that dinosaurs lived two by two upon Noah's Ark, that light from distant galaxies was created en route to the Earth and that the first members of our species were fashioned out of dirt and divine breath, in a garden with a talking snake, by the hand of an invisible God.

This is embarrassing.

It is, of course, taboo to criticize a person's religious beliefs. The problem, however, is that much of what people believe in the name of religion is intrinsically divisive, unreasonable and incompatible with genuine morality.