[magic9mushroom]

The only time I see a religion going too far is when they try to stop people learning about other religions. This is beginning to become a debate topic over here {Ireland}. Should we keep religious schools, or remove religion all together {ala France}.

My idea? Teach people about religion. For 5 years of school {high-school equivalent} I was taught the basics of Belief vs. Fact, Symbols, Jewdaism, Christianity {and some sub-sections of it}, Hindu, Muslim, Budist {again, Zen and other sub-sets}. This allows you to know that other people worship the same guy {Jews, Christains and Muslims... possibly more, can't remember} and that other people are people {the last 2 years split into racism and Sex Ed.}.

It's only when people force their belief on others {which chirtianity has done so much historicaly that it became multiple factions} that religion goes too far, IMO.


Not quite true. Atheists doen't believe in any higher power, but Buddhism is is not truely atheism. Budda ignored any questions about higher powers, causeing some people to think he did not believe in them and some people to believe that he himself was a higher power.



So each religion is equally likely to be true?
The problem with your logic {that I can see} is that you're using probability. This would be a mathmatical way to distinguish religions, but you then ask for scientific proof. From a scientific stand-point, anything within 0.1 - 5 % would be considered "identical". Percentage accuracy is vital in science since by measuring something you change it {wikipedia "quantum mechanics" for a confusing explination}. There are currently a finite number of religions with close to 3.6 billion variations of these religions (since very few people have an identical belief system).

There are a finite number of actual religions, but an infinite number of possibles. Also, where is 3.6 billion from?