Christian soldiers would be willing to die more than secular soldiers, in my opinion, thus my answer would be no.

Yes, Christian soldiers would be more willing to do more dangerous missions I would assume since they have nothing to fear if they die, but they would allow themselves to die before a secular soldier since they have the promise of an afterlife while a secular soldier knows that he must hold onto life because he does not get anything else afterwards.

People that talk about their religion only? Yes. It's quite annoying, just like if someone were to talk about their pet or their family all the time.

As for people who merely bring up religion a lot in everyday conversation, I don't mind at all. It can be quite enlightening.

Though I am an atheist, I would say that religious doctrine should indeed be required reading in high school just like Shakespeare or Whitman.

Most religious doctrines are written beautifully and use literary devices in ways that most authors in our day can only dream of. The doctrines obviously should not be taught for their truth, but for the way they are written, just like any other book that students read in high school.

As long as the teacher did not start preaching the doctrine instead of just assigning the normal projects for novels, I believe it would work out very well. Students would begin to not only be educated in ancient writing, but simultaneously in the religions around them.

If you assume that God existed and that he created me, then he would have had to have created me with the potential to criticize him, and since he is omniscient, he would know whether or not I would ever criticize him. Not only this, but he would know exactly what I would say.

In this way, if God existed, it would not be necessary for me to say anything to him. He would already know. Then again, this creates another paradox since I would never say it in the first place and thus he could know what I would say...

Damn time paradoxes.

Religion has caused more fighting, controversy, death, and suffering than, dare I say it, any other concept in all of history.

Just a few examples: Council of Blood/Troubles, French Wars of Religion, Spanish Inquisition, Defenstration of Prague, St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, etc.

Just imagine if Catherine de Medici had not been blinded by her religion -- as well as Ferdinand and Isabella, Philip II, Henry VIII, Louis XIV, and the list goes on...