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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I realized that religion is completely manmade.

I mean really when you think about it, what on earth makes Islam, Christianity, Judaism (etc) more plausible than Greek gods and mythology, or ancient Egyptian? Or why is monotheism any more plausible than polytheism?

The stories, the concepts of an afterlife, and so on are not any more believable (and in many cases, obviously borrowed and built upon).

People create and tell stories to have a sense of order. To structure what they feel is chaotic in the universe. Which is fine... but it's just a story in the absence of (or before) scientific understanding. Or to give comfort. But it's all completely manmade. 
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+1 this[/quote]

Honestly, the Greek stories are way better than the Christian stories[/quote]

You mean Greek mythology, right?  That's what we call what they considered their religion.   Someday, children will study [b]Christian mythology[/b] the way we studied Greek and Roman mythology.[/quote]

I'm totally going to start calling it that when discussing with my kids. 
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Also include Jewish mythology, when teaching your kids about the Old testament stories.  There is also Jewish [i]history[/i], which includes persecution through the centuries, based on the Christian mythology that the Jews killed Jesus.[/quote]

Any book recommendations? 
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Didn't Elie Weisel write Tales of the Hasidim? I first heard some of those on the radio on a long road trip (it was pretty amazing, it was Easter Sunday, saw the sun coming up, it was in the West in a remote area, and it was followed by a program of Native American singing and drumming). Then I read them. I was pretty well on my way to agnosticism by then but what hit me was how the Hasidic tradition had tons of miracles just like Christianity did. I didn't dismiss the religiousness of the Hasids but it kind of clinched for me that there was not just one thing out there. The stories are awesome. 
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