How about some examples of these 'teachings' you speak of then? Do not kill? etc As we discussed they are pretty much common sense, and you are contradicting yourself if you said they were instilled in us from birth, but now they are teachings. Why teach us things we supposedly already know? Why go to a big stone building every week to pray to an invisible almighty that is evidently everywhere anyway? Why live your life by old, out-dated rules? Why believe a book put together to help the political career of whoever at the time?