So, what are we going to do about it?

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Religion isn't the issue I think Dawkins was talking about, it's dogma. It's about not getting arrogant small minded individuals influencing large groups to their tainted view alone. A Church can have an open view of the Bible. I've brought a Koran (translated)and the Talmud into my classrooms for 7 yr olds. I'm non-denominational therfore I teach every denominations views when I can fit all of them in, because we're not about dogma or being right. I form ministries to outreach to people to fill their needs, not what we think they need. If they ask why I might tell them about my faith, but all that's very personal and in no way "You can't get your light bill paid until you come to Church". I don't claim this is the way, because we have Jewish members, homosexual members, evangelical members, orthodox members, protestant members, conservative members, non-believing members (probably he's a diest, oir agnostic, not sure). We're about God and not about the dogma. Annunzi you're way off base with such a broad generalization. Religion doesn't have shit all to do with science (apart from creationism and scientology) and because the rest of the Christian community has found them unbased they're segregated as their own denomination and really fretted over. We had a sister church protest try and go to a creationist protest and talk some peace adn love into them (dind't work). But if a creationist ever came to our church, they'd be welcomed like everyone else. It is fear though I believe, more of a we're taught to fear God, and we're afraid to question our beliefs, so let's try and make up science that coroberates our views. At it's very basest creationism is reactionary to science and therefore probably more rationalizatin than rational by default.

@HeyItsZeus- I respectAtheism, in fact me and 2 of the moderators are going to hang out in a few weeks, maybe have a beer and they're going to try and deconvert me. I'm open to teh experience and have respect for a lot of the atheists in here. Tolerance breeds tolerance and accepting that there's more to life than your own perspective is tantamount to progresing society. Broad generalizations lke thatonly perpetuate intolerant. I'm truly sorry for your experiences with Religion, perhaps though you could at least suspend your judgement a little longer and possibly accept the possibility of another perspective