Phillip Elrod: You say, "Yes, people will die for a lie, but almost never for what they know to be a lie." This sentence makes no sense in this case because the “lie”---the “potent promise that humans can cheat death by joining up with some religion---is obviously believed. People who don't want to deal with Christ's supernatural teachings correctly perceive their source, the bible, is loaded with errors, contradictions, historical inaccuracies, editing, re-editing, and based on copies of copies. When the bible can't even get it right about this world, it makes no sense to seriously contemplate that its "word" about the next world would be any more accurate.