Bex wrote:

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You are free to your opinion if you feel Christ is a mythical being and those you choose to believe. I am without doubts who I know Him to be and have experienced Him and the supernatural relating to Him within my own life, and believe the bible to be authentic from start to finish.

Indeed we are all free to our opinions and I hadn't mentioned the fact that I feel Jesus Christ to be a plagiarized mythological character in an attempt to enter a debate in that regard. You choose to have faith that every portion of the bible is literal truth word for word, I choose to believe the evidence predating Christianity, which can only assume the following. Either a) Jesus Christ existed before he was even born in the form of other incarnations (i.e., Mithras, Horus -- even the cross, the Three Wise Men, virgin birth and the Northern Star are all concepts stolen from much much older religions, so how else can this be explained?) Or b) that Jesus Christ was indeed plagiarized from the pagan faiths which Christianity absorbed. You have your belief, I have mine. We're all welcome to our own beliefs and I am not even trying to dissuade you from them.

What's my point? My point is that despite believing everything stated above I still do not have the gaul to make insulting remarks like "I think that Christianity is the most ridiculous thing anyone could believe". This has been said of evoution here: interestingly enough, by the same posters who ignorantly refer to evolution as a religion! -- thus proving that they have no respect for other religions in the first place. I am not targeting you, Bex, nor am I targeting Christianity. If a person uses a gun to kill another, I don't target guns in general. I target the person who chose to wield a gun. So too am I pointing the finger at those who wield their Christian beliefs in improper ways -- I know plenty of people who employ their Christian faith in positive ways. Thus, I do not have a problem with Christianity itself.

"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."

-- Mahatma Gandhi

If you feel victimized that's certainly not because of anything I've said. I ask that all posters take into account that fact that I have never once mentioned (but very well could do) the fact that pagans such as myself suffer far far more victimization -- primarily by Christians no less -- than Christians themselves. Despite this I take great pains never to have a victim mentality. It only weakens one's argument.