Ok that brings a bit of understanding into light.
If he was indeed part of the trinity then I can see where the worship him as you would god thing comes from.
And your quite correct in stateing how the bible is used by the people that teach it to the children makes all the differance between understanding and reacting to it out of fear.
The people that taught me spent most of thier remaining life in prison and I was moved to a family that taught in a compleatly differant light.
Yes it made a differance but in the long run I still dont see the bible as the truth.
I think it may have been at one time but what can one say?
The heart of men is given to darkness and the want only for themselves and I belive the book was horridly corrupted by man.
I know the bible says it was a miracules conception but face it we cant belive everything we read or watch on tv.
I discount the new testoment all together as lies written by man.
But the first testiment if you can dig through all the verce has a pretty good account of history in it and many stories very simaler to nearly every other religian in the world.
Its not that I doubt a man names jesus walked the earth in fact I belive he did and I belive he was a force of charisma to people but I dont belive he was the son of god.
I beg to differ with you on your likness to god not being based on your sex.
After all wasnt man placed above women?
For a woman to be subservent to man as were all the beast of the earth to be?
Our view dosnt state one is better than the other or is to rule over the other.
But we are blessed with creation were men are needed its true but they can not carry nor bring into life nor nurish.
your right your view on rebirth for some is indeed unusuall for a christian.
Do you also think all those born before christianity came into being were given to rebirth?
I speak of before christianity reached that country.
Wearing our symbol is one of many things a display in our path, protection much as a cross in a home is and a varity of other reasons.
I never hated god like you did I was angery but my hate turned to people not god I think god was the only thing I had to cling to as a child specialy after my brother was killed by our foster parents which was the second sibling lost to death and my two oldest sisters seperated and taken away I think god and the thought of were we went IF we died was all I had to cling to..one couldnt hate that.
Perhaps I see the act of babsisim as I do because it was stressed if we didnt do it we went to hell.
Nothing was ever said about truly beliving just that it must be done