I see that you are not reading between the lines. 

*Poor hungry African child to big fat American child*

What makes waffles and ice cream with chocolate sauce so special?

hehehe

No, I'm not trying to tell you that Eastern religions are special and western not. Its just that the average modern western man is religious only due to his cultural situation, and he has rarely been satisfied with what philosophical systems he's been taught since there seem to be so many holes in there. On the contrary, certain eastern 'religions' appeal to the intelligent man because they answer your questions before you've asked them. You just have to know where to look.

(Please don't ask me:'' but if its so great why are people in India and Sri Lanka and wherever becoming Christians?'' My uncle is a misionary there (I hardly know him), and I loathe what they are doing there)

@Chris

I gotta go work on my thesis now, and...

I have a feeling I might be banned soon :D so if I only respond in 2 weeks (I might get more LOL) then I'd like to hear what you say about all this.

Its interesting to see that someone who seems to be more spiritually aware than most (for want of a better phrase and not to appear patronising) agrees with someone like me on this (me being a rampant atheist)

Speaks volumes... how would historic religious figures view the modern take and practices I wonder?

I surely hope you are an atheist, because pretty much every religion has absolutely insane things that thye seem to be expected to believe in, which is mostly why I'm more of an atheist despite being confirmed catholic.

I see you're to lazy to say what you want to say.

(And people were eating animals before those farms you talk about)

I must admit I don't know anything about Eastern religions, but I definately felt the part I bolded when I used to be religious. Still, I think all religions are made-up, hence why I said there's nothing ultimately "special" about Eastern religions. What great answers could they possibly give?

As for your last paragrpah, don't worry, Twilgiht's popular, but that certainly doesn't make it a good book. Christian misionaries are very despicable, and quite frankly I think their activity should be made illegal. They used to use violence and opression to make those people convert, and now they're profitting of people's poverty and ignorance. And yet Christians like to criticise the Jihad.

Sounds kool good look with da ban

If you studied the Special Theory of Relativity you would say the same thing about physicists.

I'm not gonna bother to respond to all that you're saying, because it's not worth it.Yeah, sure, I didnt excpect you to etiher. Next time dont start an argument you cant finish.

First of all, have't you heard of the Taiping Rebellion? It was one of the most violent conflicts in histroy, when Christians in China tried to rise up against the ruling dynasty and outlaw all other religions. They killed 20 million people. It's a historical fact, not what I choose to believe.But no Christian chinese person died in that riot because he/she was a christian, right? The diffrence is, people tried to froce their beliefs on eachother by violence back than. And today, we are seeing a peacefull rise of Christianity in China with no violence whatsoever.

Second of all, Christianity can only rise at the detriment of other religions.Not if its rising in the country where atheism is a majority And Christianity is an intolerant religion, opressive religionWhatever makes you sleep at night buddy. I can only respond insults with insults, and if i do that a certan mod will ban me. you just keep telling yourself that. I just wonder where zexen is to teach us about religious intolerance now..., that claims to be the "one true religion"There can only be one true religion, and dont act like other religions dont claim to be the right ones. Your bias against christianity and christianity only is jaw-dropping., which leads Christians to want to eliminate all other religious beliefs (your comment about wanting to get rid of atheists says it allLMFAO!!!! Where the fuck have i said that? Please im begging you to tell me where I said that. PLEEEEEEEASE! I beg you to tell me). China doesn't need another Taiping Rebellion,See? Your just so ignorant and biased against everything christian, you dont even see what happening and choose to close your eyes and tell yourself all that nonsense to make yourself feel better about your beliefs. I dont insult judisam, islam, buddisam or even atheism to make myself feel better and more secure about my beliefs.  nor do the people need more opression in their lives.Except that this is totally diffrent than that rebelion. People are CHOOSING to follow christian religion, not to force it on others. No one is opression no one, no matter if you want to believe otherwise.

Third of all, it's quite a delusion to ignore the massacre and forced conversion of peoples like the Incas or the Philipinos or the Africans by ChristiansYes, it would be IF I was talkking about Africa or Philiphinos, but since i was not, its irrelevant. Not to mention those events happedn 300 years ago, and Im talking about TODAY!!, or what they tried to do in China, India and Japan. Not to mention things like the Spanish Inquisition, and what Christians did to the Muslims who lived there. Do you think that your religion would've survived without violence to help spread and maintain it?Absolutely, because inquisition wasnt about spreading christianity on innocent muslims who never raised sword against christians, it was about keeping church in power of the kingodms and lands of europe.Christianity would have been just fine without inqusition. Church and western kingdoms? I dont think so. As for muslims in Spain, go educate yourself on Spanish Reconquista