@KNOWITALL – I have no issue with people believing in Christianity or God or whatever. Go for it. I have no issues with your choice to believe what you want.
But two points:
– many religions make it a tenet of faith that people are supposed to proselytize, witness, and bring in new customers. TO me, that goes beyond a personal belief in god, and moves into the area of direct marketing. That’s offensive to me (I already have my own belief system, thank you) . Believe whatever you want, but please don’t try and sell it to me.
- the other point is drawing impressions and conclusions.
If you were to tell me that the earth was created 6600 years ago, in the face of overwhelming geological evidence to the contrary, I am going to draw all sorts of conclusions about you and your intellectual capacity. A belief in creationism means that there is (often) disdain for geology, medicine, biology, and any of the hard sciences that are themselves base on experimentation and provable facts.
So your beliefs, which are certainly your entitlement, tell a person a lot about your outlook on life and your capability for rational thought.
let’s say that I run an independently funded geology lab. Who am I going to hire? Someone that acknowledges that the earth is billions of years old based on hard scientific evidence, or someone who has the belief that man and dinosaurs were all walking around together 6500 years ago?