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You're confusing my skepticism for “scorn”.

I grew up in a family that went to church twice on Sunday and of course Wednesday night bible study. Church conventions in the summer. Every other denomination was considered *wrong*. -After I moved away from home, I met a woman who was a pentecostal. She spoke in tongues and her church was considered “holy rollers”. They considered other churches “spiritually dead”. And one day, she had an affair, and left me for some guy in the church who molested our daughter.

So, I'm sure like everyone else who accepts the bible as God's factual document you think you're own church is correct in its doctrinal teachings, but the very people who have been teaching you tgat illogical fallacy have their own dark secrets. And this biblical version of God supposedly uses these flawed beings to speak his message through. Flawed beings who commit grievous acts, of infidelity, murder, theft, rape, polygamy, war, etc.

Sorry, but after looking at the mountains of evidence around me and in the world at large; including watching the current news about little Christian children being beheaded in the middle east, I can only conclude that the biblical version of God is a man made fabrication.

I believe there's a divine , spiritual being in the cosmos, but based on the evidence all around us, it's not interested in yours or my daily life in the slightest.

Thanks for the run down on your skepticism. I was raised Catholic and never got it. Tried other religions with same result. Finally went non-denominational and it all fell into place. I believe religion in and of itself is sinful and there are far too many that seem to exert rules/canons, etc., to maintain a sense of control over the laity. Religion is man-made and as imperfect as the men who patched it together.

Some of the most effective and enthusiastic speakers/proponents out there began as atheists and set about trying to prove that God did not exist. The deeper they dug with their research, the more convinced they became that He did exist as he is portrayed in the Bible.

I would suggest that you do some more research - perhaps reading the Bible as a non-religious text and trying a non-denominational church. I'm of the school that I'd rather live my life as if the Bible was 100% correct and find out I was wrong later, rather than living as if it was wrong and finding that out later.

God Bless.