Religious Faith Depends On A Host Of

We're All Talking About The Same Thing, Whether It's Religious People Or New Age Spiritual People Or Buddhists Or Scientists. We're All Talking About Having A Sense Of Awe And Wonder At Something Grander Than Ourselves.

People Believe In God Because We Are Pattern-seeking, Storytelling, Mythmaking, Religious, Moral Animals.

No Such Individual Would Find The Golden Rule Surprising In Any Way Because At Its Base Lies The Foundation Of Most Human Interactions And Exchanges And It Can Be Found In Countless Texts Throughout Recorded History And From Around The World - A Testimony To Its Universality.

The Whole Point Of Faith, In Fact, Is To Believe Regardless Of The Evidence, Which Is The Very Antithesis Of Science.

The Evening Was Very Professionally Organized, And Most Of The People Were Exceptionally Polite, Although It Did Make Me A Little Nervous When One Church Official Told Me After The Debate When A Big Crowd Of People Surrounded Me That He Had Assigned Me A Body Guard "just In Case." Just In Case What? I Thought Christians Were Suppose To Be Exceptionally Tolerant. Well, In Any Case, I Guess I Was Grateful For The Gesture, "just In Case."