[Stealhead]

Indeed.You know that they could not get all the "natives" to convert in many places to "The Church" so when persecution failed the church simply absorbed the old religion into theirs.I am sure that some will say that I will go to hell I have zero concern. I am not trying to knock on people being religious but the OP topic is pretty pushy.

I recall once when I was stationed in Germany I nearly tumbled down a steep hillside on my bike I was able to slide off without going over the edge by leaning towards the incline side of the hill.I got a pretty good road burn on my knee but that was it.One of my buddies saw a wooden Virgin Mary shrine close by and jokingly said "She saved you." I said that it did not because I am not Catholic and I don't believe in religious shrines and pointed out the fact that if I had crashed a little later the Virgin Marry shrine would have been in my path and probably killed me.

Now a devout Catholic would have seen it differently.

Thing is if I pray to God,Allah,Buddha,Satan,Richard Simmons that a bullet aimed at my head not kill me and then have a perfectly functional firearm with good ammo a properly seating magazine fully locked and loaded and given to pistol marksmen when he pulls the trigger 99% that my brains will get blown out and if not it was a bad primer or other failure nothing to do with any being I'd never take that risk because I know that I will get a bullet in my brain.I am not an atheist either I just don't think that what ever created this universe put a hand in things after the start.