Wow, I just read all three pages of this, and I'll just say I wished I'd gotten here sooner. Even though there are so many things i'd like to say, I'll just sum it up by saying my beliefs:
I'm Roman Catholic.
I believe in God, Jesus, the Bible, all the basic Christianity stuff. The biggest difference that I know of between complete Christians and Catholics, is that when recieving a Christian sacrament called Eucharist, Catholics believe that the bread and wine they use are really the body and blood of Jesus, while Christians believe it is merely simbolic. Unlike some others, I think that as long as someone is doing the right thing, even if they are Atheists, or they believe in diffrent and many gods, or they are gay or bi, they can go to Heaven. As to converting people, that basically explains that I don't think ANY religion should be stuffed down someone's throat, and one of the first things I learned in my church school was to respect others beliefs, no matter what they were. Now some of you are wondering, "What kind of God would leave the world in the state it's in?" Well, I'm not sure why, but I'm am patiently awaiting the day when Jesus will come back, and I think that maybe God ischallenging us, facing us with problems, or maybe, because people have free will, and God cannot interfere with that, greedy/mean/ overall bad humans have gotten the world into the state that it's in. Besides, life isn't life without problems. My cat recently died. Death is an illusion, althought it may effect the world, it is not true separation. That's all I can think of for now. I'll be glad to discuss anything with anyone.