God is Santa Claus for adults

[Alawen Everywhere]

In a few million more points, you'll refine your concepts of moral relativism and begin to explore existentialism.

This really is a silly thread. No one is going to change his or her mind in the least bit based on this conversation. Most of us believe what our parents told us about things like creation and what happens after we die. The downside to this conversation is drawing an unintended line in the sand for us to alienate each other. This is, incidentally, my biggest beef with organized religion--the escalation of philosophical conversation into war.