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I'm happy for you that you're pastor was capable of getting the message across and allowed you to hear God loved you. My pastor didn't and as he's the only pastor I had the opportunity to hear while I was growing up, he's who I had to base my exposure to God on.

Yes, I was listening. I listened when my 4th grade Sunday School teacher told us 'if God hadn't wanted us in outer space, he'd have put us there. I listened when my 5th grade Sunday School teacher told me to try harder where I didn't displease my father and earn a beating every Sunday after church. Trust me, I listened.

If I was painting Southern Baptists with a broad brush I'd have painted my current pastor with that same brush. Yep, I'm still a Baptist and I attend my local Baptist Church. I just don't have the same pastor I had when I was growing up. My pastor now doesn't yell at his congregation nor does he preach hellfire and damnation. He teaches about the love God has for us and about the acceptance Christ has for us if we claim him as our Saviour.

"The majority of them simply want to raise their kids, pursue a better life and to live in peace with their neighbour. "

That may be what they personally desire, but thier religious belief is that you and I are infidels whose very existence is an affront to Allah.

We occupy the same level as a dog in their religious teachings. That's why our superior technology is a direct challenge to the teachings of Mohammed that they are inherently superior in everything.

The car your Christian culture designed and built is by its very existence a sacriledge that challenges the word of Mohammed.