Nice, well thought-out post, ikehiker. You made me pause and think for a while which is not easy to do ;) ... mostly about this part:
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The point I want to make, however, is I feel it’s patently unfair for the non Christians to criticize those that believe when they say they know that they are going to heaven and that they are being arrogant by making these and other claims. The word faith is not used by coincidence in relation to religion. If any of these people did not truly believe theirs was the correct path then they would be very poor Christians (or Jews or Muslims or whatever religion they happen to follow).
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You make a good point here, but I do have to disagree :p
To have faith means that one truly believes in their religion - not that they know that their religion is absolute truth. In fact, the very definition of faith is a belief without knowledge or proof. A fair statement would be something like, "I believe with all my heart that Jesus was the savior" ... not, "I know that Jesus was the savior". That is what I take issue with.
My goal is not to make people stop believing ... my goal is just to show that no one holds exclusive rights to the truth. If everyone could realize that simple fact, I believe everyone could tolerate one another and live a little more peacefully.