Mendalla, about 'god' you say [quote=Mendalla] I don't even ask the question anymore. For me, God (if God is there at all, but that's another discussion) isn't an interventionist supernatural being.

God, for me, must be something else.

God is the wonder and beauty of the world.

God is the forces shaping a world that is constantly changing.

God is the love and hope in human hearts.

I have come, after much thought, to the realization that there is (for me at least) a fundamental flaw in the atheist-theist debates that rage on Wondercafe and elsewhere. The problem, as I see it, is that both positions, especially in the extreme forms that tend to start and get involved in these debates, are based on an old-fashioned notion that one's faith is binary: one either believes in God or doesn't. In computer interface terms, it's a checkbox labelled "God" that you click or you don't.

but becuase they don't know the difference fall into religion?

I've had several hours to read through quite a few threads now, and I must admit I'm a bit baffled by moderate Christianity. Countless times I see people saying they not only don't believe this or that from the Bible is literally true, but also that it doesn't matter whether this or that is true.

I don't understand. I suppose it's as about as tenable a position a rational Christian can take, but then I wonder: what's the point?