You say that I avoid logic but I don't see any logic in you argument regarding Paradise, maybe due to the different backgrounds. Religion is instilled in my mentality and secularism is instilled in yours. In your argument I only see "vivid imagination". Allow me to quote you:
"my own version of paradise - not dictated by any religion" (you imagine what Paradise is).
"If todays major religions had not been so aggresive as they were, and the religions of the past HAD been aggressive, wouldn't it be a plausible scenario that Islam and Christianity wouldn't exist today."
You assume here that religions made their way to ppls through aggressiveness. Has there ever been an aggression more severe and overwhelming than the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagazaki? Yet the Japanese ppl is still mostly Budhist!
On the other hand, there are millions of Muslims in USA who embraced Islam without war.
Since you want an in-dpth discussion, let's go to the basics to see where we agree and where we diagree. Let me begin with this question. Do you believe that there is "a" God? If you do, then how did you know it? Logically please avoid "gut" feelings.
You say that I avoid logic but I don't see any logic in you argument regarding Paradise, maybe due to the different backgrounds. Religion is instilled in my mentality and secularism is instilled in yours. In your argument I only see "vivid imagination". Allow me to quote you:
"my own version of paradise - not dictated by any religion" (you imagine what Paradise is).
"If todays major religions had not been so aggresive as they were, and the religions of the past HAD been aggressive, wouldn't it be a plausible scenario that Islam and Christianity wouldn't exist today."
You assume here that religions made their way to ppls through aggressiveness. Has there ever been an aggression more severe and overwhelming than the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagazaki? Yet the Japanese ppl is still mostly Budhist!
On the other hand, there are millions of Muslims in USA who embraced Islam without war.
Since you want an in-dpth discussion, let's go to the basics to see where we agree and where we diagree. Let me begin with this question. Do you believe that there is "a" God? If you do, then how did you know it? Logically please avoid "gut" feelings.