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[quote=Anonymous]I took a break from religion for a few years after a stint at a religious high-school, then subsequently traveling to Africa.  My religious studies teacher taught that our God was the only way to salvation and Heaven.  Most of my fellow students were brought up only knowing about this religion and blindly believing it to be true.  Yes, I suppose that is called "faith".  But - when I traveled and met people from other religions who also blindly believed, whole-heartedly, in their own religion - I asked myself some questions.  Is the African child who grew up being taught the Muslim faith and will likely never travel beyong his tribe or learn of other religions going to hell then?  And what makes my religion so right? Because it's what I was taught from birth?

I certainly haven't since found all of the answers. I do believe that faith is a powerful tool and we each need to find our way and what is "right" for us.  I personally cannot do "blind, uneducated faith"  - though I don't condemn it in others.

I prefer to be spiritual and my God is the God of all that is good in each of us.  I refuse to believe that a Muslim with a good heart and a kind soul is "doomed", or that a Christian who regularly attends Church and believes in Jesus Christ but has a mean spirit is going to "heaven".  To me, the most important thing in the view of God is to live a principled life.  In that, I have faith.[/quote]

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