"trying to ascertain why you believe"

In 'matters of faith' WHY WE BELIEVE is totally irrelevant, for we have already been told all that we ever need to know, and that there is nothing new to ever find out, so we never need to change our mind. It is only science, which says that if we look and use our senses, we will find out new things, which will often cause us to change our minds.

There were two schools of Ancient Greek philosophy - one said that the gods told us what we needed to know and that we should not question, and the other said that we should use only our sense to investigate the world around us and ignore what any gods were supposed to have 'revealed. The followers of one philosophy sentenced to death followers of the other, guess which of the two paths in the paragraph above is which?

Kent, I have no intention or desire to try to get you to change your mind (or insult or belittle you) - it is only you who can do that, and only if you undergo a 'Road to Damascus' style mental change - or as some may call it a 'mental breakdown', and start building up a new and different way of thinking.

I do appreciate you trying to lay out the philosophy. I don't need to to agree, unless you plan to kill me for not agreeing.

:-)