Dear runner,

Good to hear from you.

Stalin’s godless faith of Marxism shares much with the godly faith of Christianity. Both faiths are nonsense. I am concerned with the suffering both faiths have caused. I wrote “Why So Many Corpses: http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=12693 which concerned itself with the suffering and death that Marxism has caused.

Like Christianity which sees the Garden of Eden in man’s past, Marxism sees an idyllic past in primitive communism in an economy of scarcity. Like Christianity which sees the current world as characterised by a struggle between the Sacred and Profane, Marxism sees the current world as characterised by class struggle. Like Christianity which sees a glorious future in the return of Jesus and the millennium, Marxism sees a glorious future in advanced communism in an economy of plenty.

I am not a man of faith. I think both Marxism and Christianity are harmful nonsense and hope humankind will replace faith by reason and compassion.

Christianity is not hate free read the old testament.
Read the rubbish yesterdays murderer of those Jews had written on his van, inferring God supported his hate.
Hate is used by almost every murderer as a reason to kill
in the end after the event that reason looks feeble
Hate exists in every thing we are involved in.
that first testament has it and it is extreme, just as well most followers reject that part of that book

Dear Belly,

God condemning his beloved son to torture and death in the New Testament isn't great either. The New Testament makes Jesus out to be such a good guy that his mother doesn't even have sex with his father to produce him. That makes sex out to be something dirty that the mothers of good guys don't do. It denigrates women, and fear and burning of witches follows. The Bible has a lot of bad stuff in it.

Jesus claiming that only through him can on enter the Kingdom of Heaven has led to the persecution, suffering and death of people who do not accept Christian mumbojumbo.

One can find both good and bad in the Bible. There is a lot about love and hate in both parts. It can be picked apart to find the good parts, but as a whole the Bible promotes neither reason nor compassion. It promotes superstitious belief and ignorance. God forbids Adam and Eve to eat of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and then condemns them for doing so. That is totally unreasonable. Before eating the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil how were they supposed to know they were doing wrong by eating it. That is the lesson of God found in the Bible. Obey without question. Don't think. Don't ask questions. The Bible is a work stultifying to the active human mind.

1)" God forbids Adam and Eve to eat of the fruit ..2) how were they supposed to know they were doing wrong ."
go to 1).
or 3) ask questions.

'God condemning his beloved son to torture and death in the New Testament isn't great either. '

if you or I were not so wicked David f it would be not necessary. The fact that you condone the murder of the unborn just shows how corrupt your nature is let alone what is hidden.

Dear runner,

Maybe you are wicked. I hope not. It seems to me you are a good guy working with the law enforcement community to keep the cons under control.

I try not to be a bad guy. I think a woman has a right to have an abortion. You apparently would put the rights of a fetus first. I don't condemn you for your views, but you condemn me for mine. In civil society we shouldn't condemn people for having different views. We try to live together. One of the problems with some religions is that they condemn people for having different views. You want to believe in the Christian nonsense. That is your right. However, I am free not to conform to your beliefs and not to have any religion.

Islam is the official religion in 27 countries in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa as well North Africa and the Middle East.
Thirteen countries – including nine in Europe – are officially Christian, two (Bhutan and Cambodia) have Buddhism as their state religion, and one (Israel) is officially a Jewish state. No country has Hinduism as its state religion.

I am happy to live in a country which has no official religion. I wish Australia would get rid of chaplains in the public schools and stop funding religious schools. I would not close religious schools but don't think government should fund them.

Meanwhile we will live together. I don't think you're a bad guy because you believe in nonsense. In a free country that is your right.