Richmond flood

[Dragon]

Its called faith Mike

Very well put.

While I myself am not a believer, and agree with Ryan that a lot of people just use religion as a crutch, I don't think any less of those who are religious. There are true believers out there, who don't just use it as a crutch and I have a profound respect for them. It takes a very dedicated person to have blind faith in something that they can't be shown, however I just find it all hard to swallow. Religion has some good ideas, and the basics in most religions are quite similar. They provide a good moral code for us to live by, but that's all it is to me, a good basic set of rules. I think most of us can agree that the 10 commandments of christianity as well as the golden rule are all things that a good upstanding human (notice I don't say christian) should live by, so religion has given us some good things. Most of the modern nations were at one time run by the church and that can be seen by some of the original laws created as a foundation for that nation.

So basically, while I find the whole "God, Heaven, and Hell" thing hard to swallow, and don't believe, I still try to live as much of a morally upstanding life as possible based on rules that were actually passed forth from Religion.