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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why bother believing in a religion if you do not think it is the right one?
If another religion or faith is right, then why are you wanting your time with that one instead of the other[/quote]

My middle school religion teacher said something that has stuck with me all this time.
We're all just people wandering through the forest, hoping to find our way out without getting eaten by bear or something.  We have a map - our religion's teachings.  We are confident that this map is correct, and if we follow this map we'll end up out of the woods and into heaven.  
But just because we firmly believe our map is right, and we will continue to follow our map, that doesn't mean that other people's maps are wrong.  Some people (ie, other denominations of Christians, in our case), seem to be walking on nearly identical paths and trails through the woods.  Other people (even some with a map labeled the same as mine!) seem to be walking in circles or backwards.
I can, and should, share my map with anyone who wants it - and even invite people to follow me and my map, especially if they seem lost in the woods.
But it's really not my place at all to be snatching maps from other people or to be denigrating other maps.  
I'm deep in the woods.  I can't see the exit.  Maybe their maps get to the exact same place, just on a different path. Maybe there path is more direct and easier.  Maybe it's more circuitous and harder.
All I know if that I believe my map will get me out of the woods, so follow my own map, invite anyone who wants to join me on my trails, and leave everyone else to follow their own map without my making things harder for them.[/quote]

I like this way of thinking about it, but still think religion is BS.[/quote]

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