"Mysterious Traveler" wrote

Considering there are more people getting drunk, drugging, stealing,
and every other crime that never set foot in a church, I'll stay
with church.

To me, it's merely a dark versus light/good versus evil thing. If everyone
would just try to do the right thing, this world would improve in about
twenty minutes.

For me to state that there is no God, and that my belief is the only true
and correct view of life that there is and can be is vanity. It is equally
as ludicrous to tell others that they are following the "wrong" religion,
and will all go to hell for it.

What if ..... after we die, and get in front of the Great Auditor, and find
out that the only true and correct religion was the one that worships cows,
and that we get an extra 10,000 for every cheeseburger we've ever eaten?

It's like this. I believe in God because of all the things I have seen in
my life, and the things that have happened to me, and they weren't all great
things. But I do know that after I die, I'm going off in a better direction
than those who say they know all the secrets of the universe because their
brains are so large and well developed and that there is no God, blah, blah,
blah.

And anyway, religion is what you do the other 167 hours a week.

And if I get up there, or just fade to black when I do die, and there is no
God, at least I won't have eternity to rue the decision to accept a God when
I had the chance, but knew too much to do so. And while I do live here, I
get the chance to do the right thing versus the wrong thing when given the
choice every few seconds, and that my life is better than if I was doing the
wrong thing all the time, and hanging around with all the bad people. Man,
those people work so hard at it, they could make lots of money if they
worked that hard at anything else.

Steve