"Where we (I include myself and the rest of you "Godless" clowns taking the academic approach) are lost to those that "have faith on Jesus" is where we are placing our faith in their eyes. We have sided with the knowledge of man over god. Of course you can say they are lost on us in the same way, they have placed their faith in God. Each of us finds our own very significant flaws in the other. They cannot be reconciled because for either of us to give in we'd have to take a "leap of faith" in the other direction."

That's where I disagree with you, Reg... They're not putting their faith in God. They've assembled a graven image out of virtually whole cloth, and they're putting their faith in that. And that's just the errors, not even including things like the massive rewriting of the Bible done at the Council of Niceae. If they were putting their faith in God, there'd be no room at all for mosques or churches, or mullahs or preachers, and even less for televangelists or religious power-brokers. INstead we have this organised idiocy, and the resulting organised butchery, both of flesh and of spirit, that religions inevitably inspire. Religions are an insult to God, and should be treated as such.