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TeaxsSP, I respect your views & beliefs, please do not think otherwise

I'm an atheist, although I went to a Christian school. I don't go to Church although I was married in one & expect to spend my last moments in one also...I just have a hard time boarding the religious bus

I think I'm a good person, it would seem I do similar things to you. I have many religious friends who are good people also but I don't think they are any more Christian than I am. In fact the only difference is our behaviour is they attend Church once a week

I have other friends who have become (hope that's the right expression) religious after experiencing drug or alcohol problems. I have others who are using their new found religion as a means of securing positions in aspirational schools for their children

Regardless of the detail, it seems to me that religion can be a group that you join for your own reasons...& 'religion' is generally quite interested in giving people reasons to join. It appears that quantity versus quality is often front of mind for religion?

I guess the conundrum I get to is; if I live a good honest life, that is essentially Christian as I know it, why do I need to devote my life to a God?

Please remember I'm asking these things from a respectful intellectual view point