100% Separation of Church and State

You said "If you can prove that every single religion is wrong, i will cede this match." There are hundreds...maybe thousands of religions in the world. And the people who believe and follow those religions all believe their religion is true ...they believe their religion is the best one of all religions. Christians believe Jesus is the son of god. Jews are still holding out for their savior. Ancient Egyptians believed in RA the sun god. Ancients Greeks had Apollo. Romans had a long list of gods too. The list goes on and on for current religions and all the religions in the past. They all believed something passionately and very different from each other. And they believed it with all their might and they even killed people in support of their beliefs. Were they all correct? Were they all justified? Perhaps one of the current religions is the real deal? You know, the one that is really really true. Or perhaps it's one of the future religions that hasn't been invented yet? Maybe aliens will come to earth and substantiate Scientology (the one invented by the science fiction writer) as the real, true religion. My point is that it's impossible for all religions to be correct. If they were all right or just a few of them were right then we would have thousands of gods or several gods jostling for position. Conversely, if only one was right then everyone would believe it without question. It's sort of like the sun rising in the east. It's a scientifically proven fact and everyone in the world believes it without question. There is no debate nor banter. That said, there is no religious equivalent. For example, if Christianity is the real deal, the one correct description of god, by default that means all other past, current and future religions were wrong, are wrong, and will be wrong...it means their gods are just a sham and their followers duped. Did billions of people waste their time on bogus religions only to find out than there is only just one correct religion...and it wasn't theirs. So we have a problem because there can't be more than one real, true, correct god, right? It would be messy...imagine if the sunrise happened in the west every other Tuesday.... Here is some more detail to chew on. Christians believe that Mary was a virgin and found with the child of the Holy Ghost. The Greek demigod Perseus was born when the god Jupiter visited the virgin Danae as a shower of gold and got her with child. The god Buddha was born through an opening in his mother's flank. Catlicus the serpent-skirted caught a little ball of feathers from the sky and hid it in her bosom, and the Aztec god Huitzilopochtli was thus conceived. The virgin Nana took a pomegranate from the tree watered by the blood of the slain Agdestris, and laid it in her bosom, and gave birth to the god Attis. The virgin daughter of a Mongol king awoke one night and found herself bathed in a great light, which caused her to give birth to Genghis Khan. Krishna was born of the virgin Devaka. Horus was born of the virgin Rhea Slyvia. Wow, that's a ton of religions that truly believe their god was born to a virgin by some miracle. Are they all right? Is only one them right? Or are they all a just a bunch of made up fairy tales. Any rational person will chose the later. Now, since this is a debate...you know...supported by facts and not faith, I think on this point alone you should cede the debate. Unless of course you can make the point that your religion is the right one, the only one, the true religion that everyone should follow...that your virgin is the real virgin and all others are just posers. Please entertain us all. Btw - all those points about religion doing good things. Nice job. Next time include all the death and hate brought on by religion...it will paint the real picture...you know, roses and thorns. btw2 - I think everyone has a right to believe in whatever they want...and to practice however they want...as long as it stays out of government and schools. Fairy tales are for 2 year-olds not for senators and professors. btw 3 - I wasn't advocating changing our currency to remove "In God We Trust". I was just using it to make a point that having in on the bills is offensive. Eveyone uses currency but everyone doesn't believe in god or the same god...so it's offensive to some people. Maybe the money we print in the future won't have it on there. This way, it wouldn't cost anything extra and nobody would be offended. In fact we might even save money on ink. ....ahem....the ball is in your court...