Originally Posted by riseagainstrocks

I didn't delete it.

You implied (as did most people on this thread) that myself and Vanilla and other people who believe in something (no matter what) higher than themselves who is a creator and has a personal relationship with you is ignorant. hence, my first comment.

This might not be the case with all of you (bill, cheesman, cardboard), but most people who ridicule me for my beliefs have some idea that I don't think for myself, that I am "programmed" as it were to think a certain way by my parents and the community that I was raised in. Well, I wasn't. My parents go to church on Christmas and Easter so they can feel good about themselves I guess. I accepted Christ as my personal savior when I was 13. Why? I felt something pulling at me. I talked with some friends and my parents and after reading the Bible, it dawned on me and I gave myself to the Lord.

Now some of you are probably thinking, why do I care? Well the only reason I related that story is so that you people do not take me for a "brainwashed sheep". What you forget is your lack of faith (I'm not saying it's good or bad) influences you just as much as my faith. You being a athiest or agnostic or whatever molds who you are and your worldview just as much as me being Christian molds my own.

I personally do not need any scientific proof that there is a God. Hell, you can't prove it scientifically anyway (for elaboration, visit my post on the second page...i think it's the second page). It's a personal matter and for you to ridicule me for my own personal beliefs is like me calling you a "sheep" for not drinking, or for being English, or anything else that you hold dear.

and as for Vanilla's risque comments and some I have made on this forum, we are not perfect, nor do we claim to be. I don't think I'm a better person than any of you. I simply think and believe something different than you do.