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I have jut found this in that link: "Jesus to David is approximately 1000 years, David to Abraham is 1000 years, Abraham to Noah is 1000 years, Noah to Adam is 1000 years, and Adam was created on the sixth day. " Well, I'm convinced. The world is 6,012 and 6 days old and I have been lied to...

Absolutely - and plenty of good things are done by people who profess no belief.

I know we have been here before, but the concept of free-will. God is not all-controlling when it comes to the Human race, and sometimes he (or she) must be sitting up there or wherever holding his or her head in his or her hands and wondering what on earth we are playing at and why on earth...

I never liked Ricky Gervais anyway. Always able to come up with opinionated, simplistic, trite crap, whatever the subject.

I don't have a problem with the seeking reassurance bit - i would argue at the rejection of the need to help other people, or the rejection of the reminder that for many - if not most on a global scale - it is a big bad nasty old world out there.

If people read the bible and accept a Christian faith, about 90% of the bible is about social justice and the like. So I personally would argue that anybody who takes it just for the promise of salvation stuff is seriously wrong.

I appreciate you are not quoting me on this, but Stewart. But I mentioned Free Will on here a while ago in response to someone talking about everything being pre-derstined. I think you would find very few thinking people of faith who would claim that Everything in the World is perfect. The free...

I think you are taking that a bit too far, but I hear what you are saying. One member of a congregation actually berated me once for being too challenging - "I just come to church to meet my friends and be reassured"..... Well, there's more to it than that, Lady, amd I meant in terms of the way...

You have correctly interpreted what i meant when talking about doubt.

you've half given away the answer "...the Gods you believe in are the ones you are mandated to believe in by that faith". you are indoctrinated into a faith and accept its god(s). Deliberately antagonistic use of the words "indoctrinated" and "mandated"? It is a matter of choice in this day...

According to the Shorter Oxford Dictionary, which i happen to have on the shelf behind my head, it can mean both - meaning 1 is belief in a deity or deities, and no 2 meaning equates it to monotheism as opposed to Pantheism or Polytheism.

Other than the fact that I do believe in a God, i accept and agree with everything you say.

Does it really matter if people are enjoying the debate? But Stewart is either a wind-up merchant or a prat or, quite possibly, both. I think people who gain pleasure out of winding other people up are very, very sad indeed.

You're right of course. I hang my head in shame, and I take inter-faith stuff seriously. But most thinking people of faith would agree that there is more that inites the faiths than divides them - a sense of humanity, sense of justice, caring about the planet and so on and so forth.

I think this is the single most ridiculous post I have ever read on this or any other thread on any site ever.

That is simply not true. There are plenty of scientists who profess a faith and who do not spend all their lives arguing against evolution. And the reason they do not argue against it is because they accept it and discount the Creation Story, because they know full well it is a story. Sorry to...

There is only one Deity, unless you are an ancient Greek or Roman or similar. Most (reasonable) people of faith would accept that the Muslim and Christian God are the same one, but that there are just different routes to it - and it is of course the same God as the Jewish God anyway. That is a...

Well said that man. I would go along with all of that just about, except the high church bit, although i appreciate it elsewhere. And i think this has been one of the best threads on here for a long time, despite Stewart. I think he and I are at opposite ends of the Church scale.

I am a Christian, and I don't believe that God has a plan for everybody's life. And if you say, right at the very beginning, that you are a very smart guy - in bold - you probably are not.

You just don't get the point, do you. Try finding a course in critical thinking.