well, Lighter, I settled for book(s) because I didn't want to go too deeply down that road... I also left out the Talmoud or eastern religions... too much like a tar baby...   also a bit distracting from the point.

I once had the dubious pleasure of meeting a couple at a friend's house who got quite exicited when I mentioned a local group of performers who called themselves Orion's Belt. At first I thought they were pulling my leg, but they actually believed that humans were galactic refugees from somewhere in Orion's Belt and somehow contact was being kept through crystals... the details of their tale are fuzzy but the feeling of shock and disbelief on my part are with me still. I did manage to remain politely quiet - though I'm sure my body language would have given me away eventually.   

By my fifth year in parochial school - 8 total- I had looked closely at belief systems that rely on faith and determined that I am not a person of faith. Faith really does not make sense to me. I know enough people of faith... many different faiths at that... to accept that there are those who value or need their faith. But I see nothing in the various dogmas out there to see how one is right and all the others wrong. The best we can hope for is to be able to agree to disagree.