re: congrats mr bush and co-nikko "The dilemma for me is that our belief systems are largely a result of our circumstance of birth."
As far as the above goes I agree, however as we have 'free will' or choice we do not have to follow or believe 'all the crap' that we are feed by parents, tachers, TV, radio etc unless we want to. This is where the fun starts.
this from the www.
For, assuredly these old and mighty nations have plenty of bibles of their own, just as sacred, just as reliable and just as much venerated. THE CHRISTIAN, TRAINED FROM YOUTH TO BELIEVE THAT HE IS THE CENTRAL SUN IN THE MORAL UNIVERSE ABOUT WHOSE MAJESTIC PERSON ALL THE OTHER LESSER STARS CIRCLE IN THEIR APPOINTED PATHS, MUST DIVEST HIMSELF OF THIS SELFISH EGOTISTICAL AND UNWORTHY BELIEF. He must realize that in a universe of whirling religious planets, he is but an atom of star dust, scarcely large enough to be seen in the cosmic telescope! At this point we may agree with George Eliot and other thinkers, that not only morality but Religion, is the direct product of environment or geography ("accident of birth" (Dawkins))], controlled to a great degree by the birth rate."
"It is indeed a singular fact that the clergy would have no case at all in a court of law.
