(May 8, 2015 at 9:57 pm)mbk734 Wrote: For me, quiet atheist = let's all coexist, believe whatever you want. militant atheist = outspoken, abolish all religion, they are all bad.
There is an in between which is where I am. All religions are stupid, but you have to see the stupidity by persuasion. So no we don't abolish religion, we just reserve the right to criticize it. And we don't set aside some respectful distance in which we don't say that's crazy, just because it happens to be a religious belief.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.