Right, I wasn't dismissing other people's point of view, but trying to explain (badly) why I don't understand them. To clarify what I said earlier, I understand how belief and faith works, but what I definitely don't understand is _organized_ religion. I don't understand how someone can believe in what other people tell with no real proof supporting their tales. Even as I say that, I can partially see how one could take a particular religion and NOT interpret everything their holy book says literally. After all, we'd be stoning to death many many people if that were the case.... and even then, if we take these holy books only as metaphor and allegory ... let's say that those holy books work as very misguided moral compasses to say the least. And that's only natural if we take them for what they are: Books that reflect at least partially the morality/ethics of the time.