Atheism, the short lived idea?

[solja247]

That's the whole illusion of religion, it doesn't actually help them live a good life, it just lets them live a life in blissful ignorance

Indeed. I just smile and nod my head, I used to be one of them, so I cant talk...

Remember that atheism doesn't preclude one from making a stupid. Just like getting vaccinated doesn't magically make you truly immune to common diseases. However, the process of deconversion is usually powered by skepticism and logic.

Its over-skepticism. I had done a couple of days research into the historicity of Moses, Joseph and David and I was going to throw it all in. I am at a Chrstian University (Not one of those crazy ones) and I asked the OT scholar there some hard questions. I said, 'You do realise there is zero evidence for a historical Moses, Abraham and Joseph.' He said, 'I know, does that mean they didnt exist?' My skepticism collapsed, I had no reason to be overy-skeptic or doubt the existence of Abraham, Joseph and Moses...From then on it was nearly a straight path back to theism.

Why sould the doubt become the answers?

Christianity is only tame because it has been largely unable to overcome the inroad rational secular enlightenment has made in most of the Christian world's educated classes, consequently it has been unable to preserve any public administration which genuinely does not distinguish between what is Christian and what is good in any country of consequence.

You do realise 'secular' countries were still very much so Christian? Everything was closed on Sunday! It has only been recently that people shop and do other things on Sunday, so I would be careful...

If there were again to be a Christian theocratic administration in a country of any consequence, as Christian conservatives of all stripes works with all their animal cunning to bring about, I have little doubt Christianity in such a state will turn fundamentalist and regain most of its 11th century virulence every bit as fast as the NAZI regime in Germany revealed its genocidal tendencies after 1933.

I will admit the holocaust is Christians fault, if you admit Pol pot's regime was caused by atheism.
Fundies are never going to get that power, even if they did, the worse thing they would do is ban abortion and homosexuality...