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Originally Posted by Finny61
1. Most religious do not say they are unlike the others that surround them. I don't agree with some of the nutjobs in the church but there is just as many nutjobs who aren't a part of the church so lets face it whatever side of the fence you are on..there is a share of kooks and we may or may not agree with them.
2. There is war, buddy take a look at how many sects of Christianity there are, there is a church for everything and the difference between one group and another could come down to one sentence in the Bible. Last I recall there are over 200 major church sects of belief.
3. I'm not mad at them the same way I'm not mad at you. I simply don't agree with you, I don't agree with some of them. You seem to think it's either your in or your out type club but its not, stop painting it that way.
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Yes there are kooks "outside" of the church. They arent trying to enroll millions into a Faith though.
Christianity itself has
33,820 denominations with 3,445,000 congregations/churches composed of 1,888 million affiliated Christians.
There were at one time believed to be near 100,000 different denominations of Christianity.
The exact number of religions in the world is unknown. Best estimates place the number around 4200.
There are roughly 2500 deities in the various known religions.
(Out of all of these...which are legitimate?)
I think most atheists would "let go" of the your in or out club, as long as theists played the same game. No door knocking, no phone calls, flyers or demands on our time. If we want to join we will find you.
If you believe in God, you have chosen to reject Allah, Vishnu, Budda, Waheguru and all of the thousands of other gods that other people worship today. It is quite likely that you rejected these other gods without ever looking into their religions or reading their books. You simply absorbed the dominant faith in your home or in the society you grew up in.
In the same way, the followers of all these other religions have chosen to reject God. You think their gods are imaginary, and they think your God is imaginary.
In other words, each religious person on earth today arbitrarily rejects thousands of gods as imaginary, many of which he/she has never even heard of, and arbitrarily chooses to "believe" in one of them.