[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Ok. Sorry to be condescending. You have rubbed a sore spot which has been rubbed raw over the years.

"I'm secure enough in my faith to know that the followers of my particular brand of Christianity was responsible for a lot of bad throughout history. It also gives me some distance before I call 5/6ths of the world kooks."

I'm not calling 5/6ths of the world kooks. I'm calling the USA cutting edge. I don't think much of any religious monopoly, and unfortunately, you see a lot of Christian monopolies outside the US. Only God, himself, can effectively unite the churches into one. You can bash Christianity all you like. But no matter how you slice it or dice it, it comes out on top. And that is, IMHO, because Jesus is truly the Savior. No need to take my word for it, however. Facts speak just as clearly.

I suppose you think Hitler was a Christian? Well he wasn't. He was a socialist who believed in a 'master race' and did very un-Christian things in the name of his twisted version of darwinian thought. He was extremely leftist, worhsipping junk science that suited his prejudices, more than anything else.

You have to dig back a few centuries-- CENTURIES-- to find fault with Christians. True, we conformed to slavery, which preceded Christianity. And then we ended slavery, as Christians. Once again, we were cutting edge in humanitarianism. I'm fed up with Christian bashing. Seriously. Christianity is the most generous, most science-generating, most prosperity generating faith the world had ever seen, particularly in the US.

Sure we made mistakes. But what relgion hasn't? I'll take our failures over any other religion's successes any day.