The same old argument between christians, pagans, and athiests

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Pretty soon I'll be known as "That girl who only talks about religion" but people enjoy arguing so much.. Lets see..where to start. The Bible I guess, it's a good a place as any. Many folks believe that men wrote it, to be literal, they DID. Whether or not it was inspired by the christian God is debateable..and we can all agree to disagree, right? Many verses in the Bible (review this thread: http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/945544.aspx) can be taken VERY negatively if taken literally. But as I said in that thread if looked out another way, if you think a little bit outside the box..then it's VERY positive. For clarification I was not saying the Bible was evil in that thread, I was simply trying to point out that people are not perfect.. Everyone views and interprets everything differently. Over time the wording of every old book has CHANGED. Which is why some of us do not put much faith in said books. We are allowed to disagree with certain parts. People who decide to take the Bible negatively will never win a logical argument because if taken literally the Bible DOES contradict itself. Thinking outside the box of course.. No..we're not saying the Bible's wrong. What else.. Ah yes, our different Gods and Goddesses..though yes, not all of us worship any one god so much as we revere nature, but in any case..reviewing history not all gods demanded human sacrifices or nasty things done to children. And none of us earth-loving people would join up with one of those anyway. It is unfair to say we eat babies or that we worship Satan in drag just because we view the ultimate powers of the universe differently than you do. History may have turned out much differently without christianity, with its share of troubles, but I don't know how much worse it would be without it. No one can know since we are not all knowing and history when it comes to it's timeline is one of the trickest things to guess or predict. Athiests. Just because they don't believe in God does not mean they're going to hell..because most of them are looking for proof and backing for things. They're trying to be rational..you don't see any of THEM going about murdering people in the name of anything..and you probably won't. Just because they don't believe in God does not automatically make them evil or that they're going to hell. History is sometimes the best judge. Many religions are stained in the blood ignorant people reaped from innocents. Most of paganism is violence free..of course we have bad apples just like everyone else, but the factoid that we've never felt the need to convert or sway people to our way of thinking is a big factor of how few bad apples we've had compared to the larger religions -- and no you can't argue that our smaller numbers are why, because we may be slightly smaller than other religions..but we've always been around. The number's only smaller by a small amount compared to how large our population is. Christianity has been taken the wrong way a few times. More so recently only thankfully no country-wide bloodshed..just hatred. To look back some we see the Crusades and the Witch Trials. A few famous villains in history were athiests (by the definition that they didn't believe in God) but by comparison you didn't see them with enough power to sway a whole world to their way of thinking. Anything can be taken the wrong way. ANYTHING. The most beautiful belief system in the world can be twisted into something perverse and evil. To point fingers at other religions which have either learned from past mistakes, admitted them, or else are still peaceful is stupid. It's not up to any one human being to judge what's right and what's wrong for the world over. We are simply too diverse. And actions and intent are often too complicated..because there are many factors contributing to all of this. All we can do is decide how we think about things. All any of us do is what we think is right. That should be enough for God or the Gods..if they exist at all. All of us could be right, only some, or maybe we're all wrong. Religion, spirituality, is just a way of seeing things, of helping explain them..a lack of it is also a way of seeing things and explaining them. Someone can believe in no God or Gods and still be spiritual. Please, don't generalize, folks. Try thinking outside the box and try to see if you can meet someone else's point of view. Thanks. ((A Note: This is just something random I felt the urge to write. I'd appreciate any points of views on this subject, though you don't HAVE to comment on anything I said if you don't wish to..so long as you stick inside the subject. There are no wrong or right answers, I won't minus your post just because I disaree with you. I like disagreements. Everyone has an equal chance of getting the best response when this month is over. I'd also like to say sorry if any of you are getting tired of hearing me talk about religion lol)