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I'm not a devout Christian. But I do believe there is a God and I do believe that he is the only path to the heaven that I believe in. Beyond that I am still examining my beliefs. I have found many discussions useful in examining the things I have been taught. I was raised a conservative northern Baptist.
I have found that the philosophy board is where I feel the most attacked. The attacks are not frequent or by many members. There have been a few occaisions where the tone of the attack was more or less "You're an idiot if you believe that." Also in MANY of the evolutionary discussions that I attempted to participate in years ago I found it useless to even bring up any facts that I found. Because- the response to facts that I found were to either deny their validity, or to ignore my comments and reiterate a previous complaint that creationists believe 'this bunk.'
As a result I don't waste my time contributing to any discussion in which ANY member decides to claim that a differing point of view is a result of a weak minded individual(which has been said more than once). I avoid discussions in which the member/s proclaim that any facts brought to the discussion that are intended to support my point of view are false without said members supporting their argument with fact. This has happened.
In other areas of the board, an expression of faith in God seems to be accepted without disparaging remarks.
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"Always learn the rules so that you can break them properly." Dalai Lama
My Karma just ran over your Dogma. 
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