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Which god? jehova, jesus, allah, buddha, one of the hundreds of hindu gods, the roman gods, the greek gods, the egyptian gods? and there are a lot more gods man envisioned over the years. which one?

So you admit that morals come from God? You know if you say man, you don't have a leg to stand on, don't you? As I mentioned befoer, the Law of Contradiction does not allow that all of these gods exist. Logic does not allow it. All cannot be real. So which one do you pick? The one that best reflects human reality, human experience, and historical evidence, of course. When one speaks of evidence, Christianity is the ONLY God with any real evidence. Apparently, you have never examined any of these things. Are you a truth seeker or not?

I respect your religion, but I disagree with your source of morality. Fundamentally, morals come from the human capacity to empathize with other humans, and to some extent animals. Normal humans do not like or want to see other humans suffer, and so are pro-life. Few people are truly evil, but many refuse to see the humanity in unborn children either through ignorance or denial.

816 - "So you admit that morals come from God? "

Not at all. I just wanted to point out that a lot of people through the years have believed a lot of things about the 'unknown'.

and you say - "All cannot be real. So which one do you pick?"

Actually, the words of your god condemn my 2 wives and myself to hell for not believing in christ (1st - buddhist, 2nd - hindu, and me agnostic). And the religion I was raised with (baptist) condemned my mother to hell for getting a divorce and more particularly for marrying a catholic.

And since I read Dante's Inferno (at about age 15) and understood the terrible punnishments of hell, I thought I would explore the various religions, because I didn't like the idea of my mother being tortured so badly, and especially for all eternity.

If I were to adopt a religion, I probably become a Budhist or a Taoist. I get tired of getting lectured by christians how the whole world is born sinners. I prefer to think we are born innocents. Actually, I prefer to feel that we are 'born', period, and not 'created' in an instant at conception.

As I have lived extensively overseas, and associated with and been friends with many many non-christians, of various religions, I am more familiar than most with other religions/gods. Personally, I have found that there are more 'moral' buddhists, percentagewise, than 'moral' christians.