Musket sez: What is the bloody difference? I recall the "we are all God's children" bit. So it makes the prerequisite to believe a little superfluous doesn't it?

You're right, Musket. Therefore, if there is a God who is active in the world, what matters is not whether we believe, but how we respond to that God's actions - whether we acknowledge them as the action of God, or not.

Is there a "prerequisite to believe"? I don't think so, but the evangelical Christians seem to think that's the only thing necessary. I do believe, and that has its good points and its bad points - but I think the "prerequisite" is whether you treat your world well, and your neighbor as yourself. And I think that's true, whether or not there is a God.

-Joe-