Danes feel Obama is greater than Jesus

[Zenda]

You claim that these philosophies are antithetical to harmony.

No, I don't. See how my 'yes' follows your 'none'.

The philosophies of religions are all very commendable. That is not surprising, because religions were also meant as a means to provide a stable and prospering society. Unfortunately, there are always individuals who look at 'sacred' texts and think that rules which worked for people 2000 years ago, on the other side of the world, will still work for us. With accusations of slavery, you are quick enough to point out that such things happened everywhere, back then, or that it might be a matter of translation. Why don't you apply that same logic to the rest of these old books?

To add, something I read to my boys this year at Christmas time, because they are ready to contemplate the philosophical truth of it.

So that's what the 'universal pursuit for truth' is all about? Lying, and confusing little children? Scaring them by telling there are things they can't see?

I doubt btw, that this piece is really written to answer some 8 year old kid, or the writer got totally carried away and forgot where the question came from. Imagine poor little Virginia. She propably only understood the first sentence, and the next day told all her friends in school they were wrong. Guess who got to be laughed at?