>>>I'll have to read those entries next week. Thanks. My opinions, of course, are from my perspective as a Christian and I realize you have a different take on things. We are all God's children and fall short of His hopes for us. And no one religion has a stranglehold on the truth, nor do they have God on "their side."
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>>Doesn't your last sentence contradict the first commandment?
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>I'm not sure how.

Well doesn't it say "I'm your sole provider of spiritual supplies and you won't shop for them anywhere else"? I admit it doesn't necessarily follow that the provider doesn't serve others in the same way, but such an exclusivity clause sounds to me like an exclusivity clause. Many may think it does work both ways, at least for their own brand of religion, so if they're on his side, so is he on theirs.

One of the major flaws in most of the religions is this idea that everybody else got it wrong.