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Believe me Ankou, I have no intention of rattling off various verses of the bible one by one to bemoan them on answerbank. In fact I think this is the first time I have put anything into this section in the many years I have been a member of AB. Ratter is better at this than I am. It just annoyed me this morning that I received yet another email quoting the above from the bible. My junk mail seems to be full of these recently. It annoyed me because of the suffering on the one hand and the lies on the other. I am not someone who spends their life trying to convince others that their beliefs are wrong; it is each individual's choice what they believe. I just wonder why they believe, when so much of it is so disturbing and so obviously untrue. I have asked myself the same question. why did I believed for so long. But, as catholic children we believed because we were taught that if we questioned our faith, the bible or what the nuns and priests were teaching us, we would burn in hell! Threats like that worked in those days! Today I believe that if we do not question, we never learn to understand. I also agree with lonnie and starbuckone. A lot of our friends are believers and follow various religions and we do discuss these issues with them occasionally. I just wish it hadn't taken me personally so long to realise that it was OK for me to stop believing.