Atheists, tell me, a Roman Catholic: why should I become an atheist?

[Pat Mustard]

From what I'm gathering, you guys generally view religion as a product of the mind, an excuse for hope or political power, etc. that ignores logic and bends accordingly.

What are your thoughts on miracles, whether large-scale ones like the events of Fatima, or "personal" miracles like those listed on sites like these, http://www1.cbn.com/700club/episodes/all...ng-stories ....Lies? Coincidences? Exaggerations?

Fatima was a mass delusion brought on by looking at the sun for too long, and even at that the majority of the crowd admitted to seeing nothing happen. It was the least well educated and most wedded to the infallibility of the church that "saw" the sun dancing

As regards the 700 club thing, thats from a scam run by a "pastor" who says stuff like "tonight a woman in Kansas called Patty will be cured of cancer by god, as long as she writes those cheques made payable to me" and "that hurricane in New Orleans was god's punishment for us allowing the gays and catholics to live".

Oh and to bring it home to catholicism, what was the miracle used to beatify Wojtyla? A competent doctor successfully performing a routine surgery on a patient who happened to be a nun.