The most important reason anyone is an atheist

[Fidel_Castronaut]

Bollocks. Utter Tripe.

Counter with something worth discussing or don't bother responding at all.

Seeing as you seem unable to grasp the basic sociological and political points I made earlier without resorting to basic assertions and assumptions, I will conclude you are unable to. 'Equality'. You know nothing about the word, or the concept, or the history of it.

Have fun.

Equality and humanistic principals are what Jesus taught and many of the our civil rights movements and other acts such as the abolition of the slave trade were inspired by Christian morality. Not to say other religions don't teach some good morality but they didn't necessarily all teach equality of rights and status. In India for example they have a caste system and in the Islamic world men are still dominant to women something you may have noticed. You don't poo poo the achievements of Christian civilization or claim them in the name of atheism. Atheism did nothing at all.

Your willful ignorance makes me sick, and only reveals just how intellectually (and morally) vacant you really are. The best thing Christianity ever did for the world was formulate the current system of statecraft every advanced society operates; namely secularism. The establishment of structures abolishing illegitimate religious institutions interfering in the matters of a sovereign state. I don't expect you to understand that.