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Why I am now a Christian by Ayaan Hirsi Ali. She makes a fine argument for being a Christian. I suspect part of the problem is we did not understand how much of a unifying force our religion can be, nor did we understand how different our religion is from others. Nor did we understand how much our culture is entwined with our religion. Those differences started to become apparent when air travel became commonplace but it's the tremendous growth of electronic communications in this century that is making those differences ever more apparent.
We need a religion we can all believe in. Christianity is the best one available. The problem with the Democrats is they don't have a religion other than the off-stated belief that Trump is a demon. That might unify a mob but it's not going to unify the country, it's just going to divide us.
A brief summary of Ayaan's history: Ayaan started as a nominal Muslim, became a more devout, perhaps even radical, Muslim under the tutelage of the Muslim Brotherhood. She had her eyes opened by an old essay by Bertrand Russell (an atheist). After observation and reflection she decided to become a Christian. Her essay gives a much more eloquent description.
The USA is a free country, you can do what you want, go your own way...
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The Marlboro Man and John Wayne followed carefully created scripts.
A mans gotta do, what a mans gotta do, but better follow the script.
Otherwise if you do-what-you-gotta-do, you end up in deep do-do.
If you're a fan of Trump because he pissed off the opposition you should spend some time, (and this really applies to all politicians) thinking about how his policies and behavior affects you & yours.
I was never raised with any religion. I was an atheist seeker until my 20s. I attended a Catholic high school because it was a great school and it also gave me an interesting glimpse of religion in action. I explored dozens of religious schools of thought and hundreds of books. I can tell you that in actually answering the great questions, Christianity is most certainly NOT the best religion there is. Jesus may have had great insights to teach, but he never wrote them down personally. He counted on less divinely awake men to do that for him, and those writings were then "protected" by folks who used them to serve their political and power ends. The only teachings worth their substance are from those who have tacitly realized the divine nature of all existence and have written down their insights and have shared those directly with their followers. That of course leaves out Islam and Judaism too.
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