• Sun, 11th May 2008 10:59pm - Edited by the author

I'm afraid we're going to disagree some more here. I think it is far more arrogant to believe that the greatest being in creation made you to look after the earth. I don't refute that we should be taking care of the planet, but only as a moral task for the rest of humanity. I also think that your contrast of the superior and abusive athiest is not only unfair in the context of our discussion, but also irrelevent in the light of equally superior and abusive Christians.

It's good to see you sticking to your guns about other religions, but surely the inconsistencies you percieve between reincarnation and your view of the world, and many other inconsistencies I'm sure you would find in other religious texts, are only equal to the inconsistencies others find between the contents of the Bible and observations like the discovery of dinosaurs, morally good homosexuals and the age of the universe.

I would suggest that it would not only be interesting to look into other religious texts and see if you percieve any inconsitencies, but essential if you are to propound the truth of one text above the rest contrary to the beliefs of (increasingly) large swathes of humanity. I'm surprised that as an obviously intelligent person and a someone of powerful faith you haven't explored other people's beliefs more closely. I think this is where those without faith would percieve arrogance, and why the original article (which seems so far away) painted the religious as without reason.

Of course, there is potential for hipocracy in what I am saying as I have admitted to not reading the Bible closely - but I am neither promoting Christianity nor atheism, if I was doing so actively I would want a good knowledge of all surrounding subjects.