Respectfully, I don't know what this has to do with the subject at hand? Are you implying that because I do not believe in something I cannot discuss it and discuss it with any accuracy?

I hate politics too. I'm not a politician nor do aspire to be yet I discuss it because it affects me, is a part of my world and is relevant accordingly. Non religious people discuss religion because some of us came out of it, much like a person who has come out of a life of crime and/or drugs even though they are not participating in either anymore. Religion makes certain universal claims, claims that state you "better believe this or that or else" and non-religious people basically provide the other perspective. The "truth" as they uphold is not always as advertised. The non-religious provide an opposing point of view. Imagine if they were not around.

What is consistent, Dahlin, is that the New Testament writers ALL believe Jesus was to return within their generation. Why shouldn't they? He specifically told those within his audience that there were some of them standing before him who would NOT taste death before he, Jesus, returned. In the book of Matthew he also tells his Disciples that they would not complete their preaching throughout Israel before he, Jesus returns. In the book of Mark while standing before the high priest, Jesus is asked if he was the Christ. He tells him he is and then tells him that that same high priest will be witness to him (Jesus) returning in glory with his angels. That high priest is long dead of course an Jesus has still not returned.