Science was once a child of the church.

[mickiel]

I hate the rape of the English language, I hate being called names, I hate being insulted and degraded; but I cannot change how others choose to have speaks with people, they have a right to let things roll off of their tongues in any manner that they wish.

Thus, if one holds the right to mangle their words in speech, then they hold the right to believe in anything that they wish to mangle in their beliefs.

I am not above making mistakes myself. I am so used to seeing theists argue about death being a numbers game his second sentence threw me off. I am glad even when theists agree that religion divides too much to the point of bloodshed. Having said that, the defense of religion by the believers part comes from somewhere. And just like a dictator, the Gods of Abraham you cannot remove from their position, thus those concepts are in line with that of a dictator. What allowed Stalin and Hitler merely was the same attitude of obedience to authority and worship of the state. God belief requires the same.

Religion has no doubt muddied the waters of how god is viewed. In my view, if I may be allowed to say I have one, the view of god I believe in is that he is a supreme ruler, he is a dictator, and I do see the only way to deal with him is to serve him and obey him. BUT, we have been given a perverted distorted view of how he is. If I may be excused and allowed one biblical scripture, or two; Gal. 5:22-23 describes just how god really is said to be; " He is loving, joyful, peaceful, kind, gentle, good, faithful, patient, longsuffering and meek."

Religion does not teach this. This is how god really is. Now, IF a ruler is like that, then he dictates in those terms. When the ruler is good and kind the people are safe. If he is loving and gentle, the people can rejoice and honor him, admire him. The way that religion has killed and deceived, is not a reflection on the true god. I think god kills, like atheist would kill, for the right reasons. However theist and atheist cannot rekindle a dead person, where as god can; so what he kills, he keeps. And has other plans for the kill in the future.

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even the number of atheist is declining;

http://www.wnd.com/2013/07/global-study-...n-decline/

I don't make stuff up, you just misunderstand my stuff.

(CNS News) Atheism is in decline worldwide, with the number of atheists falling from 4.5% of the world’s population in 1970 to 2.0% in 2010 and projected to drop to 1.8% by 2020, according to a new report by the Center for the Study of Global Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Mass.

Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary

Gordon–Conwell Theological Seminary (GCTS) is an evangelical seminary whose main campus is based in South Hamilton, Massachusetts, with three other campuses in Boston, Massachusetts; Charlotte, North Carolina; and Jacksonville, Florida. The current president of Gordon-Conwell is Dennis Hollinger, a Christian ethicist.[1] According to the Association of Theological Schools, Gordon-Conwell ranks as one of the largest evangelical seminaries in North America in terms of total number of full-time students enrolled.[2]

Is it possible that the people doing this study were somewhat biased and this influenced their findings?

Of course its possible.