Quote: contend that there isn't enough evidence to prove god, only enough to make belief in god rational because if god were to provide proof, that would be coercive and god wants to be loved freely and without coercion.
I don't understand that at all. If god supplied us with evidence of its existence, I don't see how that would constrain our free will to love this deity. Practically, all of the coercive forces that I see in the world, are the religious wackos, trying force us to love and accept this god on no evidence, yet many claim god doesn't want to coerce a relationship with us, but wants us to choose to love him. Someone isn't receiving god's messages very clearly. The consistency of the claims of what god wants are ruining the credibility of the religitards by the minute, with contradictory statements like these.
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.' -Isaac Asimov-
