Reply #7: When I was in High School I was a sincere, non-homophobic Christian [View All]

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and as the saying goes, "some of my best friends are Christians".

I think there are literally millions of sincere, well meaning Christians who have been duped by the claims of revealed religion. They have never been exposed to material that seriously questions the validity of the Bible or the claims of their church.

Thomas Paine's "The Age of Reason" blew my mind - I could not believe how many obvious mistakes and contradictions and inconsistencies were in the Bible. Paine did the world a real service by compiling them.

I think just getting copies of "The Age of Reason" into mass circulation would have a dramatic impact on weakining the grip of the claims of organized religion on otherwise rational intelligent people.