or atheism. In fact this whole line of reasoning stands refuted by your own experience, despite being brought up in a Christian environment you were not conditioned to believe and after your own consideration rejected Christianity as false. The same is true for the atheist who comes to believe Christianity is true. In that light the notion that religion has nothing to do with truth claims is not something I would not hold to be true. In fact to me, that statement betrays a train of thought I cant quite understand. Religion, including atheism is completely envoloped in its truth claims otherwise we are all indulging in pointless mythology. The Bible even makes this clear; if Christianity were false then we should be pitied for being so foolish. All truths cant be true no matter how much we all hope our individual truth is. Thankfully we are all free to evaluate the arguments and evidence on offer and decide where we believe the truth rests. In my reasoning, the evidence from multiple disciplines points to Christianity being true. Peterpieman Stuart, Unfortunately you have misunderstood my position. I stated: "I agree that you don't need to know the cause of something in order to know something began to exist." This statement most certainly does not say that something can be causeless. It merely states....what it states. Just because we don't NEED TO KNOW the cause of something in order to know that something began to exist, does NOT mean that that