Quote:Well, it is a fact. It does get rather redundant and you couldn't blame someone for standing up and say 'enough is enough'
The above is also accurate, the difference is that atheists have evidence
The thing is that YOUR belief system is of no interest. It is YOUR belief system. Sorry pumpkin but no one cares.
Unfortunately the above is inaccurate. Religion has done a great deal of harm within the world and is still inflicting itself on a very tired population. This is one of the issues that really gets an atheist's back up. The organisations that "help" have been doing it for 70+years and they are still no closer to bringing water to African villages nor freeing the world from starvation. But hey!! Aids has REALLY taken off in Africa thanks to xtianity!!
No religion is a crutch for the emotionally and psychically crippled...we know this as a fact...but like dandruff many have a religion and spend time and money fiddling with it.
It is not MY belief system. It is the belief system of the VAST majority of christians, and all kinds of theists all over the world. Religion, the way i and most theists live it, is not harmful. By reading those boards it would seem that creationism is an issue. its not. In the civilised world only the US have creationists. Creationism is not even considered as a possibility by the vast majority of christians.
The Pope is considered as authority by actually a rather small percentage of christians. We are not stupid, we see the wrongdoings of the Church. To me the Church is an organization based on the promotion and spread of Jesus' message, and it is only human, so yes it makes mistakes, but they are human mistakes.
Now a little bit about Islam. Islam is NOT a violent religion. Evidence for this: since 9/11 there have been less than a dozen attacks on the "western" world by terrorist extremists. Compare that number to the HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS of muslims in the world. Terrorists cant even be called a minority, because there are so very few of them.
Also before you say that as a christian i want all muslims to go to Hell. I dont. They believe in a false prophet, however they do believe in Jesus as a prophet. I hope Muslims that have the opportunity to learn can see the story of Christ and accept him as their Lord, but i dont condemn them to Hell for not doing so.
What you say about religious groups not being successful for 70 years, thats actually a good thing for religion. They dont give up and still try to help no matter what.
This is my point: the vast majority of religious people are harmless and their beliefs help them and others around them on an everyday basis. Religion is not that harmful. Religion helps me as a person. With the holy example of Christ i am shown a way to live peacefully and better the human race.
Don't hate religion, hate the few who abuse it.
