That depends, SaraJane, if we're right and there is the one God!! I looked up the religious facts site alluded to and OMG(or Gs) there are so many listed!

Very interesting.

So we could all be right, if there is one God and he's understanding about how we might all get confused and not sure who is right/wrong and how to put it all into practice.

If he isn't understanding, most of us are stuffed!

We had a table of whether it was worth following religion (Christian, in this case) put together by someone noteworthy (I'll find it somewhere) that classified the 'risk' of not following religion against the 'reward' (salvation, possible eternal life, etc) and the 'cost'. He determined that even if you didn't think it was likely there was a God, you were better off behaving as though there was - since if you were wrong the cost was high, whereas if you were right there was not really any downside.

Chlo - my FIL (chauvanist from way back) went back to the Doomsday book when he did their family tree and discovered that their surname was actually from a woman many centuries ago (her husband took her name). I took great pleasure in seeing that and highlighting it since! So I'm very intrigued that the Sunni were led by a woman in battle! Can't wait for an opportunity to use that in a conversation with him. (He thinks 'cause we've only produced a daughter so far the family name and reputation is going to die. But I'm going off the subject!)