(November 26, 2011 at 1:28 pm)little_monkey Wrote: Sorry but believing in a fairy tale when there is no credible evidence, which is the case for theists, is something that needs to be pointed out. I fail to see how this has anything do with bigotry or irrationality.
Secondly, the article is not about denouncing religion per se but how good it feels to be free of the shackles of religion.
First, as long as it does not affect me, i don't see why the hell i would give a crap what someone else believes.
Second, some people only make it through the day thanks to their belief in God.
Yeah you can call them weak, but some people have nothing real to hold on to.
Thirdly, we are all irrational: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_superiority is an example of that. So judging someone else for being MORE irrational is simply hypocritical.
Finally, this article seems to claim that the religious are blind fools who can't know how liberating it is to be an atheist, and that is a HUGE generalization full of condescension and ignorance of the millions of believers who ONLY use religious for a moral support, never bothering to read the Bible or spend even a second worrying about any divine rules, and are as rational as you and me their whole lives.
Implying, as the article does, that every religious person would look up to the sky and think "forgive me Jesus" before downloading a movie illegally is just laughably wrong.
