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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Islamic religion.[/quote]

I'm actually embarrassed to admit this, and my opposition is definitely secret. But yes. I've read the Koran cover to cover, which I'll wager is more than most have done, and my opinion is well-informed.[/quote]

Having two degrees in religious studies, and having real all the main religious texts as well as supplemental texts, my opinion on all religion is well informed. No thank you.

Outwardly, I don't believe in religion and am quite more tolerant. But secretly, I believe them all to be vile, and that only weak people believe in religion - ie, those who seem to be so scared of life and the world that they need such structure. That their moral code is so flimsy that they can't have introspective human ethics, and need a text. Or have lives so chaotic, that they need concepts like heaven and hell to try and make sense of things. I understand the purpose that religion serves for people, but I believe those people to be extremely weak.[/quote]

Another of my little secrets is that I often *pretend* that I see eye-to-eye with people like this poster, who have black-and-white views on religion, because I work and play with people who are very well-educated, as am I. Privately, I like more nuance and ambiguity, and I see plenty of room for questions about our place in the universe. I'm the poster above who's read the Koran, and I'm not in favor of literal interpretations of any text. And still.... [b]I have lots of friends with whom I can have honest discussions about belief[/b]. But try explaining this to people like the dual-degree poster above, who are convinced it can only be that you're weak-willed or lost or confused ... so I don't.[/quote]

Oh I totally agree with the bolded above - like the title of this thread, however, we all have our own, private secrets :-) I'm just a little less, shall we say, personally forgiving when it comes to mythologies of today, and mythologies of the past. [/quote]

I'm thrilled for you that you have friends, of course. But I think you misread my post. Anyway, if the subject here is whether any of us have "secrets", I'm going to venture that your disdain isn't as much of a secret as you think -- just from the language you use above. And that at least a couple of your "friends" just nod passively when you start in. That's their secret, of course.[/quote]

Can you see my "nodding" now?  :wink: [/quote]

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