Do not worry I'm not offended by other people’s views. I only have a problem when people push barrowed ideas on others like salesmen (not you in particular)-I'm came here, no one asked me.
Nothing gave me a feeling more ugly inside as when growing up people tried to sell me God- Their words were always empty, speaking of things they had never experienced- promising things they really knew nothing about. Nothing except when I sold newspaper subscriptions door to door then I experienced it first hand. I felt false as they taught me techniques to talk people into it- all along thinking "why am I forcing a subscription on them they don’t really want". It was short lived.
I had a realization at about 18 years old. Sitting alone I understood that adults do have unsolved problems- I held a picture of all the adults in my life and how they had been so untrue to me about who they were. The painted picture was so pretty. They created a false world to me. None of them had total control of their lives or mastered mistakes. All along shadowing faults, covering what is real in order to justify their discipline upon me. Using my experience of reality as a pon to their self-worth, while they discipline me within their own lack of control. Had they only been honest everyone would have been able to learn from each other. But adults are too ego driven, even in their mistakes, to allow children to prove them wrong.
My point is I can not take what is true from any book or what someone else tells me. Just in the way I could never follow one religion, one person, one idea. I can listen, read too all of them, then place them against what I have experienced. I do my best not to judge anyone, and usually only do so in an unconscious attempt to be funny or smart. I'm lucky in that I walk a thin line and naturally don't feel angst against what any other people do. Its nothing I did or should feel proud of accomplishing- just that I hold on to no ideas, ideals or conceptions.
All actions are done in relation to their behavior at each moment. The moments combined from life to death equal what is a person’s life. The judgment of their behavior is a judgment of their life. The two can not be separated.
You seem to be an intelligent person. If you get a chance check out the true history of the bible. How it was destroyed, rebuilt and written. The Orthodox Christian monks who developed many of the principles and teaching to live by did so in story line narratives. This was done so the understanding was easily understood without needing to read and it could be spread more easily. It was never their intention to have what they wrote- walking on water, the world flooding etc..... taken literally. But people have selective reading, therefore limited understanding.
Thats all I have to say about that. If you survived my writing its now time to get away and live.