I had an email conversation with a friend the other day and this
 was pretty well put out, so i figured i would include it.

> well, don't start believing i accept them without question ... i
> question everything around me ...
> 
> i see judaism, christianity and islam along the same spectrum ...
> judaism is the belief of the one true god with its prophet moses ...
> christianity is the same religion with the prophet returned (elijah) and
> the savior (christ - who himself says he's mortal but christians insist is
> divine) ... islam is the same religion with elijah, christ and the "last
> prophet" mohammad (which christ foretells of in the bible) ... so in a
> sense, i believe in all 3 but define my beliefs that christ is the savior
> ...
> 
> i believe that there is definitely a true god out there and that the
> many religions of the world are all trying to explain the same thing with
> different sets of glasses ;-p
> 
> which is my religious beliefs have overtones of the zen-buddhism
> philosophy (but i am shedding my zoarastic beliefs and tend to believe the
> judaic tradition that hell is an afterlife without the presence of god and
> not the christian/islamic burning in a lake of fire thingy) ...


  "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." 
  Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)

  "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with
  sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
  Galileo Galilei