Good for you! But you might not want to insult people who actually pose no threat to you.
Granted, many Christians are artless in their proselytizing, but if you believed that you had discovered the way to eternal life wouldn't you want others to share in your discovery?
The bottom line for me is this-- I might be wrong about my belief in the "divinity of the carpenter from Nazareth", but if I am then what have I lost? Absolutely nothing. But if I'm right, my friend, what have you lost?
I believe in one God, creator of the universe. That he governs it by his Providence. That he ought to be worshiped. That the most acceptable service we render to him is doing good to his other children. That the soul of man is immortal, and will be treated with justice in another life respecting its conduct in this. These I take to be the fundamental principles of all sound religion, and I regard them as you do in whatever sect I meet with them.
As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system of morals, and his religion, as he left them to us, the best the world ever saw, or is likely to see; but I apprehend it has received various corrupting changes, and I have, with most of the present dissenters in England some doubts as to his divinity; tho' it is a question I do not dogmatize upon, having never studied it, and think it needless to busy myself with it now, when I expect soon an opportunity of knowing the truth with less trouble. I see no harm, however, in its being believed, if that belief has the good consequence, as it probably has, of making his doctrines more respected and better observed; especially as I do not perceive that the Supreme takes it amiss, by distinguishing the unbelievers in his government of the world with any particular marks of his displeasure.
Acceptable . . .
interesting word in this context.
I suppose . . . in the sense that it is acceptable that you drink a cup of hydrochloric acid.
I can get over it and go on living. I can accept it in that sense.
But it's not at all important--in most respects--whether I accept it or not.
THE FATHER said--THIS IS MY SON, IN WHOM I AM WELL PLEASED.
THE FATHER will have something to say at some point about one's acceptance or rejection of HIS 'only begotten' SON whom HE SENT to die for you--and whome HE RAISED again to prove it.
"I'm religious. I'm also very content with myself and my place in the universe. I have a mission to fulfill and I am doing it. I don't believe in the divinity of the carpenter from Nazareth. Is that acceptable to you ?"
There are many mansions in My Father's Kingdom.
Logically, there are also many doorways.
God Bless