(January 10, 2015 at 2:51 pm)strawdawg Wrote: I can see people not believing in God but why hate it?
I had two uncles neither believed in God, they didn't go to church. They were good family men and good providers. They didn't hate religion they just didn't want to hear it.
Religion, any religion, is repugnant because it is false and any intellectually honest person should abhor it on that basis alone. It's certainly enough for me.
All the rest - wars, divisiveness, xenophobia, standing in the way scientific progress - are due to following superstitious nonsense as fact and thinking your sky daddy's inscrutable pronouncements offers you a correct world view.