True. Even for people who are more secular than religious, teachings from Christianity have a lot to offer. I just hate it when people become too righteous, doing or saying stupid things, and hiding behind a faith. This includes Fundamentalist Christians, Islamic Terrorists and *ahem* followers of other faiths
I am with you entirely on this one.

Look, I'm a Christian too. But I don't live in some crazy parallel universe where Christianity in general is some ultimate religion of peace.
Christianity IS a religion of peace. Heretic barbarians of the middle ages do not define Christianity. Christianity is defined by the teachings of Christ. People who behave otherwise in the name of Christianity are not Christians, but heretics.

Christ's principals are soundly compassionate and peaceful, but Christianity as a religion has hardly been the vanguard of decency in this world, especially back in the day. At the end of the day, Christians are just people, and people do @@@@ things. They do really amazing and wonderful things, but they do @@@@ things as well.
Hence, what I said above. People will always do evil in the name of religion. As I said earlier, they do so because religion exists to do it with. Without religion, the problem will not go away, they'll just find another way to do the same evil.

44 Cannon (sorry if it wasn't you), I noticed some of your comments on contemporary debates, like the legitimacy of sexual pleasure and, I think, abortion, were a bit extreme. You don't happen to be American, by any chance?..
I live in California. Sexual pleasure is fine if you have a sound foundation in your life, which enables you to take care of children if you wind up having any, and are doing it with someone who you know is not carrying any deadly diseases, in which case, condoms and birth control are not nessasary. This is among the reason why I am a sound believer in the "To death do us part" theme.
If your just going around and sleeping with everyone, then you are wide open to cause yourself and others all kinds of hell.
I don't know about you but I also find eating after some other guy quite tasteless if you know what I mean. Their is very hard evidence that a fetus is a living human being. Their is video footage of them interacting with doctors who do work on them while in the womb and many other things. Murdering your baby is not worth a few minutes of pleasure, especially with all the people waiting to adopt.

BTW.
This webpage, which I made a while back, says allot about my views on Christianity:

http://www.paladinrepublic.com/incrediblepope.htm