So ya gotta riddle me this. God is all knowing and God - well nothin' goes on without God's plan

[Karadeniz]

17. Actually, out of body experiences have been verified many times! My favorite is the woman who

Was anaesthetized for surgery and later described the event, including the colors and appearance of items used. The kicker is that she had been blind since birth! In my own experience, I could send my mind out and it could see and feel without any physical organs. Like I said, understanding with the brain... about all most religions require...
is unnecessary. The only thing that matters is that we live with compassion, generosity and helpfulness. Religion can actually get in the way of achieving this goal by convincing people that dogma and ritual are important and make their followers better than others. Of course you remember the 9/11 planes. On one, a husband told another passenger, "let's roll," before they attacked the terrorists to stop their mission. His surviving wife got a lot of air time. One reporter asked her how her faith or religion was helping her. She said she belonged to a group that met every week to determine how best they and their money could be of help to another. Humanitarianism. There are a lot of churchgoers who can't be bothered to be humane. This shouldn't be the case with Christianity, given Jesus's instructions, but it is.