(January 8, 2012 at 1:36 pm)LastPoet Wrote: Mabe if idiotic religionists kept their beliefs to themselves and inside the churches (where it belongs), and didn't try to insert their particular idea of a sky daddy in schools and science, we wouldn't have the need to keep shoving your bullshit back into religionists holes where the sun doesn't shine.
Do you have anything new? The claims you made have already been addressed multiple times in this thread.
What "b*****t" have I said? Is this the way you conduct your "intellectual" discussions? If this is the way atheists engage in intellectual discussion then its no wonder the Dawkins.net forum imploded. In my experience I've often noted that when a particular poster feels the need to resort to such profanity, they've done so out of sheer desperation for their argument is already lost. If all ammunition is spent, then by all means throw the pistol out of the pram.
For your info, I don't go to church. I've been a handful of times in my life. I found God on my own, and I do have quite a story to share. I understand and have respect for most atheist arguments, I am well schooled in science and I have more than a decade experience in that field under my belt. I can quite gladly discuss university level chemistry, physics, engineering, mathematics (among others) until the cows come home. However, I can tell you right now that science *in truth* actually leaves us with more questions than answers. Science does not and will not (in our life time) provide atheists with the scientific validity nor sanctity so many of them seem to crave. In a nutshell, science says that when it comes to God and spirituality - you're on your own.
As for atheism being a religion, I can see why atheists find it annoying. They've spent so much time distancing themselves from mainstream religion, only to find themselves tarred with the religion brush, with outspoken atheists compared to Jehovahs witnesses trying to ram their belief system down everyone else's throat. I can understand that aggravation.
If atheism is a religion, then it certainly is a very different kind of religion.
Where atheists draw criticism, is where on one hand they claim to be proponents of facts and science, but often twist facts to serve their cause. For instance, they will state that religion is the source of the worlds evil, and even extend this to claim that Adolf Hilter was a practicing Catholic, but yet igore the fact that the main perpetrators of mass genocide in the 21st century were mostly in fact, atheist.
Another example is with religion in prison, yes a high number of prison inmates call themselves Christian, and athests often use this as proof that religion causes criminal behaviour. However lets not ignore the fact that many of them have converted once already incarcerated and have hardly lived a Christian life. Its the twisting of facts that I take issue with, and should be, in theory, very unatheist like.
