As a card carrying Agnostic I have to say some of the biggest hypocrits I've met have started off the conversation, "well, you know I'm a christian........" and then they go on to tell me about their illegitamate child they had with the waitress of the restaurant they own, or how there was a misunderstanding between him and his wife and the police and that is how he ended up in the police reports, or how the pastor of a large church talked about how he "jewed" the seller of prospective church property down in price..., or how a business owner is agressive in his tax planning (meaning he doesn't count cash sales towards his annual total sales revenue).

Yeah, then you look at the Catholics and the Protestants, who basically believe in the same bible, except for being able to wear French ticklers on their tallywhackers, so they go to war for a few hundred years in Ireland.

How 'bout them folks from Islam, the fastest growing religion in the world, who proclaim a fatwah (sp?) and decide to strap 20 pounds of C4 and nails to a vest and walk into a mall and vaporize 20 or so people in the name of their God.

Jimmy Swaggart is another good example of a good christian man. Yeah, preach about sin and such, then hire a hooker for a regular date so he can bend her over a couch.

Catholics again, let's see, hmmm...... How about we protect priests who are doing God's work, which means didling little boys, then move them around from dioscese to dioscese, not letting anybody know, so they can continue to do God's work to many little boys, and destroy their lives. Even better, how about just going bankrupt, then refuse to pay settlements to the people they have harmed. Heck, it was only a matter of institutional policy to protect the privacy of the priests involved.

Sorry if I seem a little jaded. I just do my best to be a good man, and to teach my boys to do the same. They go to Sunday school with their friends, and I will let them make their own choice, as my dad let me.

The people who have to wear their religion on their sleeve are usually making up for some past transgression, or are hiding something they are currently involved in.

If you want to be religious, great! Keep it to yourself.

Every religion has examples of this, not just individuals, but insitutional policies that go against the teachings of the Bible, Koran, or Torah.

I just try to build up Karma. Do something good for someone, and they, or someone else, will eventually return the favor. Just concentrate on being good humans. Shouldn't that be enough?