//Essentially bringing up the topic of religion (in any way) is enough to step into a bear trap for all of the anger people have towards religion or towards those practicing a religion.//

//Do you remember this conversation? I do.//

You appear to have misunderstood the nature of the anger that people felt in that discussion, NNS. I suspect that this is because you're unwilling to extend your empathy far enough to consider things from the perspective of people who don't share your faith because it would feel like a betrayal of your faith to you.

But I can assure that the anger wasn't against religion or those practising it. The anger was against your sneering, arrogant, sanctimonious holier-than-thou attitude than Christians are necessarily more moral than those of other faiths, and that practitioners of other religions other than Christianity are necessarily incapable of being as moral as Christians because they don't believe in the right God. For some reason you don't seem to be able to grasp the fact that other people might object as strongly to perceived as attacks on their faith as you do on yours.

Do you know what Jehovah's Witness doorknockers do if they're met with, say, a Sikh, who politely but firmly declines tells them that he's not interested as he has his own faith already? They leave. Yeah, sure, they might come back in few months/years to see if he's had a change of heart. But they leave, without making a fuss. What they don't do is stand on the doorstep and harangue the poor chap that he can never really be a decent person unless he renounces Sikhism and converts to JWism. Because they know it's not going to win them any friends, and they know that approach will hinder rather than help their cause.

It's the narrow mindedness and the intolerance that people were objecting to, NNS. Not the religion. After all, Foxy is Christian and Yuyutsu is... whatever Yuyutsu is (he's certainly not irreligious), and I don't object to their faiths.

Because they don't object to mine.

I think 'fighting the good fight' is:

Having ethics, whist making the most of life's opportunities, and not letting others get the best of you.

Dear individual,

You wrote: "Just look at Religion, they all say there's only one God yet these same religious organistations have wars to fight for the Good of their religion ?"

Religions do not all say there is only one God. Judaism and Islam maintain there is only one God. Christianity has a Trinity. God is in three parts which somehow is one God. I can't understand that. Buddhism does not maintain there is a God.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinduism

"The Rig Veda praises various deities, none superior nor inferior, in a henotheistic manner."

Judaism and Islam, to the best my knowledge, are the only monotheistic religions.

david f,

"Judaism and Islam, to the best my knowledge, are the only monotheistic religions."

There is also Christianity and Sikhism.

Dear Is Mise,

Sikhism is monotheistic. My understanding of monotheism is that it is the belief in one indivisible God. With that understanding of monotheism, I don’t see how Trinitarian Christianity is monotheistic.

david f,
good point. The bad point is that the monotheism religions are about 900 years behind to the trinity outfit. It's nearly a millenium since the tri-believers have given away the absurdity of holy wars. Your mono mates have a lot of catching up to do..