Again, sorry ass excuses for these murderers, killers, exploiters and dictators.
The hard reality and you all speak so much about reality is that you all cannot accept the flaws within atheism and your beliefs and justify other atheists actions as being driven by religion. What religion?
You all just cant accept defeat and the fact that atheism is nothing more then an Unorganized religion of people who are afraid of the truth.
Firstly, I.m not athiest. I believe in a god. The confines of my mind lead me to believe that since there is matter, something created it. I believe in what is "the first cause argument" being the first cause in a long chain of cause and effect. I'm not an athiest, more accurately, I am agnostic, which is a form of thiesm. That does not mean though that because a believe in the existance of a force beyond my understanding that I believe anything elser religions try to associate with that believe. From here on out I will call the force which I have little understanding of that is responsible for the existance of matter, I will call it god...it will be easier. I dont believe that god created us or our galaxy, that god has any rules for our lives, that there is an ultimate system of punishment and reward, that god even cares about anything that happens to us. I believe that if you take an open minded look at the evidence our word has to offer that thses views are more likey. If god cared, africa wouldnt be so screwed...and there are many examples of this.lds But I am not athiest.
What I feel has happened is that people have taken this feeling that many of us have and create a whole networks of stories and manipulations to exploit peoples curriosities and fears for power, wealth, control, whatever. I think religion is a harmful way of creating ethics around the beliefe in a god.
What we want most really isnt for you to be gone because religion adds to the culture of life on earth, what we really want is you to keep to yourself. Religion is like a dick, do.t take it out in public and certainly dont try to shove it down my or my kids throats. Be religious, just keep it to yourself like the buddhists do. Everyone loves buddhists, they dont fuck with everything like judean based religions.
Also, I dont make any excuses for the horrible people of the past, they were horrible...bad people. I've been to cambodia and seen the killing fields, ive been to burma and seen what the junta have done. Ive been to china and seen how single dimensional they all are. They were bad people.
All I.m saying is that the absence of religion, not spiritualism, could make the world a better place.