You've still had a good try though, i.e. "you've been fed lies," "open your eyes," "you are naive." My eyes are wide open. We're never going to agree on this point.



The way I live my life and the choices I make are rooted in love for people. Again, we will never agree on this. I don't blame religion for the world's ills as some people do. You tell me that religion was not the sole causative factor of strife throughout history, and I'll grant that the root causes of conflicts are usually more complex. But it's equally incorrect to release it from blame. It isn't the majority of peaceful religious people who begin conflicts, it's fundamentalists of any faith. Look around the world at any point in time and you can see this happening. Why do you think the words "Islamic fundamentalist" cause so much terror in the western world today -- it's because they are willing to kill themselves and others in the name of their god.



You've studied these for years and you're as knowledgeable about them as you are of Christianity? Personally I've found a lot of truths in eastern religions and continue to do so. But I have no desire to argue about which religion is right or wrong. People change their minds about these things if/when they feel ready, and according to what they feel is right for them.



You often cite this as part of the "mountain of evidence" that the Bible is the one and only literally correct version of life, the universe and everything. We've talked about this before: prophecies can be made after the fact, they can be favourably interpreted after the fact, they can be made about events that are obviously going to happen, wrong prophecies can be conveniently forgotten . . . it's a long list. I personally believe that some people can and do see into the future, so maybe some Biblical prophecies indeed were real. The question then is, because someone accurately predicted the future, why does that mean that their religion is the correct one? The logic doesn't follow. People have been predicting the future since people existed, before Christianity and now. For example, here are some Native American prophecies (which make interesting reading in themselves):

http://www.bci.org/prophecy-fulfilled/nativeam.htm

Using your logic, their religion must be correct because they also can claim that their prophecies have been fulfilled. If you're going to try to debunk them then logically you're going to have to use the same criteria on the Biblical prophecies as well.



Well I'd expect you to say that. Interestingly, when I was Catholic, I did not believe that non-Catholics were evil people going to hell. There are a lot of good, kind, loving people in the world of all different faiths, but interestingly their faiths or their cultures still teach them that it is ideal to be good, kind and loving. Plus, I doubt if you know very much about Hinduism other than that it isn't Christian, but you're welcome to prove me wrong.



The city where I live, Leicester, has an ethnic minority population of almost 50%. This includes many Hindus (whose religion is evil according to you), Muslims and Sikhs. We haven't encountered the race riots that some other cities have, and we take pride in our multiculturalism. If you go to work here you can expect to work with Asian and black people of different cultures and faiths. Our Diwali celebrations are the largest in the world outside of India. It is tolerance of each other that has made us a successful community. If we decided to try to convert each other to what each of us believed was the correct faith, we would lose that. I know which way of life I would choose.