The moral code of the christian religion is violent and hateful.

You have made good arguments. Some of them, however, I have felt to be more than a little evasive. Your statement: "I cannot presume, however, to question the moral code of an all-knowing, all-powerful entity" seems to be asserting that we should just have blind faith and not question authority. I understand that in your religion, it may seem blasphemous to be skeptical, but for the sake of debate we must consider, question and criticize all. Your general tone in your previous post was that of: "He's god, he's gotta' be right. Neither of us is smart enough to see the real reason, so just go with the flow". I am not against your semi-agnostic beliefs, but in a debate, this serves as weak backing. Let us try, though as amusing as it may seem, to see the human race from a god's point of view. We are just another chain of events, just another animal, in god's infinite wisdom, he should know and understand the chain of events that is our mind. He should see our decision making process as cause and reaction. The illusion of free will comes from the incomprehensible complexity of the mind. As I said, it is cause and reaction just like a tree falling over. The mind's cause and reaction is extremely complex though. We make decisions to do things based on memories, instincts, sight, smell, etc. Because we cannot predict the working of the mind we automatically assume that it has free will and controls its own fate. The same theory may be applied to the rolling of a die. We cannot possibly comprehend the complex (yet fated) rolling and tumbling of a die across a table. We therefore see it as "random" simply because we cannot predict it. Shouldn't god, with his all enveloping, all understanding mind, see that the human mind is a force of nature, to which he should be able to predict, in his infinite wisdom? So then to follow up, and make my point I say: Can a rock sin? Can a river sin? Can a cloud sin? Can the moon sin? Can an ant sin? May a monkey sin? Is there a heaven for monkeys? These, as well as the Human mind, are all just fated forces of nature. And for our "intuitive knowledge of right and wrong", that is just further backing evolution. Are perceptions of "right" is what will carry on the human race, our perception of "wrong" is what will be malignant to the human race. You said that we are "conditioned to suppress this Spiritual knowledge". Isn't Christianity the force that is doing just that? A child without influence, raised as an animal without ever being communicated to or introduced to a Human world would not believe in god. If you take a child and take him to church once a week for him to listen to a preacher, Then and only then, will he believe in god. A child raised as an Animal would live with nature. He would follow his instincts. He would be one with his surroundings. And that…is the beauty of Taoism. The ending of your last argument really intrigued me. This idea of: "I might as well believe in it; it couldn't hurt" seems to reflect many Americans attitude towards Christianity. This is partially why Christianity spread so widely: People decided to accept Christ as their savior just in case. Just in case it was true. They were scared of the idea of Hell, so they believed in Christ.