I find it interesting that you assume that the reader's response would be in this direction and use that as a pretense to lecture the reader as to why this isn't so. I suppose it makes for a good piece of narrative (which was well-written, by the way), but it was a little off-putting to have such assumptions projected onto me as a reader.
I was just going to say "one religion is better than any other because it works better in your life than any other you've tried."
Given the content of the original post I think you are ignoring the topic in order to be argumentative. You would have gotten a much better response from me if you did not start off by assuming the most base motives of the point I was trying to make.
Take a look at the main point of the post: "In order to have meaningful language, you have to have a set of assumptions or axioms you consider to be true without proof. From that point. you are then able to make statements in the language you can identify as being true or insane."
The point is most people I have found do not share the exact same set of beliefs or assumptions that make up ones own personal dogma. I was trying to find and illicit a response about why people choose to believe what they believe. If you are offended by the word "better" or the phase "better than mine" that is a very precise level of nitpicking. I would argue your response to my post was bordering on ad hominem attack. I was not projecting anything onto you as a reader. I just assumed you have a different set of beliefs than I do and that there are good reasons or intuitions why you would choose the ones you did to be better over all the others. Where as you were projecting that I was projecting as if I was looking at you as a lesser person than I was which I think says much more about you than it does me. I was not assuming you or anyone else was a lesser person. I was pointing out something about how we determine what other people are saying is insane.
Also, I did not force you to post to this thread. I was just trying to get a response to an idea about how people think their own belief system is the "right" one. I'm sorry I use the phase "yours is better than mine" and that you found that to be so strongly offensive. Most people believe other people are insane if they do not share the same axioms of belief. You could have simply said, "I agree with you" or just not respond at all.
At this point I have to rethink what I've been posting here. I never imagined people would be so sensitive at such a refined level. I can understand direct ad hominem attacks and moderating explicity language for the purpose of having polite conversation. However, eliminating ALL possible conflicts including pejorative intent is a lot of egg shells for me. It's too bad I really liked this place too.