Oh please.

I have seen more personal re-interpretations of scripture than I can count and in every case it was to justify judgement of others and in some cases murder, destruction, and worse.

David Koresh read his Bible every day, lest we forget.

I do believe in God and in the goodness of Christ, but I also believe that scripture is NOT the way to go. Christ did not ask us to go forth and judge others-he asked us to go among our fellow beings and to live by example-not try to create authoritarian laws based on scripture to be enforced at gun point.

Indeed most christians I know are the kind who treat church like a social club-they are there to be seen and to network. Their lives are often quite contradictory to their claimed faith.

I attend no church, but were I to find someone on the side of the road, I would be the Samaritan. I dont read the Bible much-and when I do it is out of curiosity-I read other books, philosophy, etc too-and I see much wisdom in Christs words-too bad that to many, only his being supernatural gives him authority-and personally I highly doubt the man lived after his crucifiction. yet we learn much about ourselves by what happened to him.

No, I didnt attend a Bible College-I learned about each subject without a frosted lense or an agenda.

Religion MUST be kept from our government or we will end up being the Taliban of the Christian world.