Originally Posted by
KC Elbows
I respect some people's religion.
BUT,
If you're Christian, you have to face the fact that, in most Christian lands, until very recently, it would have been a death sentence to form an atheists club in a community. Even through the first two-thirds of the twentieth century in America, being an atheist of any influence would have very serious negative repercussions.
I'm not saying these are your views, but unless you tore the pages out of your Bible saying all non-believers go to hell, gays go to hell, women are to be treated as property, then you are on very poor ground for this fight. I'm not saying you necessarily believe any of those things, but if those pages still stand DESPITE your belief, in YOUR copy of YOUR Bible, you can't complain when others point them out just because you don't look at them...
That said, any good idea from any text, mystical, religious, or otherwise, humans wrote and humans can make use of. But there is no meeting ground between "we all worship the same thing" and "only by accepting Jesus can you go to heaven" without clarifying which part of the second you don't agree with, and moderates almost always fail to do this.