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^{Common Sense}^{Imagine if someone gave you an application form to join a club. The club had lots of rules and regulations and required your absolute commitment, but you were told, “Don’t bother reading all the fine print, and don’t bother checking out similar clubs, just sign here.” What would your reaction be?

When you join a religion you surrender almost every aspect of your life, including your thoughts, to somebody else’s interpretation of rules and regulations written in an ancient book! Wouldn’t you think that in taking such an important step it would be common sense to do some research and, “reading of the fine print”? Of course! But now think of all the religious people you know. How many of them did any kind of research before committing to their religion? It is far more likely that someone became a Jew, Muslim, Hindu, Catholic, or Protestant because that’s the way they were raised or they were recruited at some vulnerable point in their lives.

If you challenge a religious person on the above, they will almost certainly agree with you, up to a point. That point being their particular circumstances. And, of course, their circumstances are that God directed them towards their religion! Everyone else in other religions is misguided or has been fooled by Satan the devil!

So what happens when someone who believes that God has chosen him to follow a certain religion meets someone who believes the same God has chosen him to follow a different religion? Well, that depends. If these two delusional people are by nature moderate and kindly they will view the other person as misguided, or an innocent victim of Satan who, as all religious people know, prowls around the Earth looking to turn people away from the true faith… your faith! But if they are fanatical believers, then they will view the other person as evil, an enemy who has rejected God and must therefore be destroyed.}

^{This pathetic and terrible line of reasoning has been the cause of countless wars, acts of terrorism, torture, persecution and human misery from the beginning of recorded time to our present day.}