If you are a sponge, you became supersaturated at a point long ago by whatever your head was pumped full of in Sunday school. You've lost the ability to retain anything new. If I didn't believe this, I wouldn't mind trying to expand your mind. You are a lost cause in my book, which is the reason behind the brevity of my responses to you.
[edit] I thought about it for a minute... I'll take back what I said about you being a lost cause. I've known others who seemed even further gone than yourself that retained at least some kind of open-mindedness about things and then were eventually able to come around and accept that they were wrong about some of the things they used to speak with absolute certainty about. Your statement that you are open to new ideas, even if it may seem hollow in the context of many of other things you have said, at least shows that you want to be open-minded, or that you view this as a positive thing to aspire to. So.... maybe I should apologize and accept it's more my own frustration and impatience that has stopped me from sharing many ideas with you. You might not be a lost cause, but at any rate, I don't think you're ready.
If any man thinks he knows any thing, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know. --Corinthians 8:2