Christians did not invent or establish freedom of religion. There are many examples in history of that happening. For example, Alexander the Great allowed the conquered satraps of Asia to practice their own religion.

All religions are equal in my eyes. None of them can claim to have "the truth". Once you start thinking your religion is better than others is where you have a big problem.

As far as your points on Hitler, Marx, and Darwin, well I don't even know where to start. I don't feel like typing for a hour so I will leave that be.

Different opinions and views on life are what make people unique. We will never see eye to eye on this issue and that's ok. You may have the last word.

... its always amazing to me the self-importance and glory that comes from arguing christians... as of 2000 there are more christians(protestants, catholics, puritans, et. al.) than any other SINGLE religion... HOWEVER, they only make up 33% of the entire world... so i never understood how 1/3 of the planet thinks it could KNOW something that the other 2/3rds was too stupid to understand...

you say you believe in the search for truth... i think thats probably the most interesting way to say it... truth? i mean, truthfully i look for facts...  and factually, the declaration of independence was written by an athiest... hence the whole "let all men worship freely"... thomas jefferson didn't want religion any more than the rest... and i think its funny you critisize hitler for his "truthes" but say that it was merely "the times" for the "christian founding fathers" who supposedly read books about ancient isrealis, iraqis, egyptians and turks, held them on such high regard, and then kept people, who had pretty similar skin tones as slaves... sounds pretty honest to me... and very christian.  love thy brother, but just the white one...

the truth is you've found a purpose and legitimacy to your life by being a part of a group where you are told what to think and do by people (this is where i would get into the pediphilia thing, yay choir boys) who all study the same books for years and somehow all come up with different versions of it... so christian is that way to go! great!... um... catholic? roman catholic? adventist? methodist? lutheran? baptist? southern baptist? unitariean? jehovahs witness? mormons? church of the united? latter day saints? stop me when i get warm...  i'm fine with you believing in which ever you want, and i'm fine with you sharing that belief with close friends who attend the same scripture readings as you(we wouldn't want you finding one of those unauthorized, we don't want you to know this books)... but don't for one second try to try and espouse to me about how i/anyone else doesn't understand... especially if you're going to write of the worst parts of christian history to a) that was another time or b) that was before protestants... cause i think God wouldn't like that you dismissed his role before the people you agree with were around...

i mean, his son was jewish. so what does he know?