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I'm not anti-religion or anti-God.

A) There are religions that are useful, even religions that don't require belief in the supernatural so to damn them all would be the same as to damn all automobiles because you don't like Fords.

B) I can't be against something that I do not believe exists. There are certain ideas of god that are not contrary to the laws of physics or perceived reality. I have no problem with them, although I don't embrace them actively. Then there are ideas of God (sorry, but the Judeo-Christian mythology of Jehovah and Jesus fits in this category) that can be rationally proven to be fiction and I can't be against a fictional character. I'm not against Huck Finn, Sherlock Holmes, Odin, Zeus or Homer Simpson. I understand them to be fictional characters. That is precisely my relationship to he Hebrew God and to Jesus Christ. I may respect certain of their stories and not respect others quite so much (especially the violence, cruelty and evil done in the Bible in the name of Jehovah), but I am not against the characters themselves. That is simply nonsensical.

I should point out that I don't expect you to agree with me, obviously. We disagree on the question of whether the supernatural exists and it leads you to believe that demons, gods, and giants are real while I consider them to be mythology. I only say all this to correct the common misunderstand of atheists that they are against God. They're not, anymore than you're against Cinderella. They simply consider him to be a figment of the imaginations of believers, poets and storytellers.

And yes, this was supposed to be funny. :-)

I guess that was supposed to be funny.

I can say that many things that religions teach are things that will help their own agendas and are therefore, many times, false. There is truth in religion, not even just christian ones. But the truth is minimal to none.

But the problem with people that don't like religion, is that usually they blame God or take it out on God. Religion has nothing to do with what God really is. Religion has blocked people from knowing God. Most "christians" believe that you have to be in a religion to be godly. And when the religion fails them, or they fail at the religion (which isn't their fault since religion is false), then they get mad at God. God didn't teach them false doctrine. Religion did.

So I say down with religion. Praise God. Hallelujah. Amen. Come Lord Jesus.

Atheists are funny.