Quote:2) What precludes the christian fairytale from being better, is not being able to believe it. It's one of the things that confuses me about Atheists anger towards the religious. Ricky Gervais nailed it in the Invention of Lying. The idea of heaven brought peace to his mother who was terrified of death. That's a win. Why would you ever try to take that away from something when you would be replacing it with nothing of importance?
My next-door neighbor lost his apartment in a fire a few days ago, caused by a meth lab explosion in the downstairs unit. I had a chat with him this afternoon, and he told me how blessed he was to make it out unharmed, told me that God was looking out for his family because they all made it out unharmed. I think that's a load of crap, but all I did was nod and agree.
As caustic as I can get towards a Christian, I would never act like that towards the inoffensive variety of Christian who pays lip service to the whole thing and believes in Easter and Christmas and maybe some of the hippie jesus stuff. They're not really the problem. The problem is people who have had their capacity for reason warped all to hell, to the point where they feel justified in hating certain groups of people and in condoning or outright doing bad things to other people.
