How about this: Christianity is currently the 'hip' religion or whatever, right? But it only originated 2 millenia ago. Before, it was judaism, and before that, hinduism. These religions still exist now, but are not the most prominent. However, as Hinduism is the farthest back traceable religion, why is it that so many individuals are convinced there is a single god? Did he come into existence two thousand years ago, kill off all the other gods, and then retrospectively create himself unto the beginning of existence? While there is really no way of proving whether or not a deity exists, there IS no way that one can just dogmatically claim that it is the christian god, or the judaic god, or the many plural gods of other cultures. Personally, I think that if there was at one point a god/gods, this planet was likely the result of a drunken bet, and they have since moved on to other parts of the cosmos. Consider this; Yeah, 'he' resurected jesus, and parted the red sea for moses, but - what have you done for me lately?

I find it funny how those who follow religion blame Man and the devil when things go wrong, but keep their faith in someone who is said to help if deemed worthy through prayer. Don't you think that if your god does exist that either A) he hates man because he sure as hell has not interveined in the worlds affairs or B) he would step in and do something instead of letting mankind suffer. Who's to say that the author(s) of the bible were not fraudulent? until i am proven wrong, by fact, then anyone who played part in creating the bible is a potentional enemy of man. If man is as bad as believers say then wouldn't it make perfect sense to gain control by exploiting a "god"? And writing a book cliaming it to be his will? and yes there is various works that do not spark outrage, everyday books that don't try to police the world and brainwash mankind into believeing ideals which just make life more difficult. Honestly tell me that if the world was godless and the slightest shred of god did not exist, that there would be more conflict. The catholic church along with the other religions have not really changed all that much, sure there is no longer the spanish inqusition, or the salem witch trials, but still the church tries to police the world. Not through government, but through brainwashing and selling hope. I don't just feel this way about catholicism and christianity, but about all organized and un-organized religion. Jihaad is a prime example of how religion negatively affects the world.

Technically Christianity is nto the mos powerful religion. based on generalized beliefs they are, but here is the actual statistic according to " religious population"


1) Christians - 2,116,909,552 (which includes 1,117,759,185 Roman Catholics, 372,586,395 Protestants, 221,746,920 Orthodox, and 81,865,869 Anglicans)
2) Islam - 1,282,780,149
3) Hindus - 856,690,863
4) Buddhists - 381,610,979
5) Sikhs - 25,139,912
6) Jews - 14,826,102
And... a) Others - 814,146,396
b) Non-Religious - 801,898,746
c) Atheists - 152,128,701

subtract all the little sub-categories and Muslims take the cake, not only that but the Islamic religion is also the most powerful currently because of their control. The whole world is at tension right now based on their ability to control fear with small groups of radicals. (ATTN: i am not stating that I am muslim and it is better, nor am i generalizing all muslims/islamic followers as terrorists.)

without the grouping of the christianity category, none of those come close to Islamic religion.

so your stement by saying that christianity was the "most powerful" was incorrect, factually speaking and in terms of Populace control.

it is not a debate on wether the bible is inherently evil, i simply brought up the point that Islam is more powerful. almost every country in the world fears a terrorist attack because Muslims ar grouped in with terrorists in most peoples eyes. You can't say "no, you're wrong" and have no substantial evidence to back it up.

you say that most peoples morals are based on the ten commandments, but most people don't have morals. Everyone breaks the ten commandments and sins.

the reference to Jihaad was not to single out the islam faith, but to show an exaple of how organized religion always has it's own way of getting out of hand.

who cares if bush met the pope?more than half the nation doesnt even thinks of bush as a serious president anyway. and without you being there asa a co-author to the bible, then you cannot be take seriously as a voucher for its sincerity.