I pretty much agree with a lot of what was said in the last two posts.

If someone pushes my buttons about religion i will try my best to unleash the fury and rip them a new one but i wouldnt do it without provocation. I believe in nothing but if others do, if others have a faith then who am i to argue with this? To be honest why should i care in the slightest?

In a way i almost envy those who really have faith and the ability to believe in something so much. Although that may just be because i can't get my head around religion at all and therefore know for a fact i could never do that.

I'm not sure I ever met an atheist that fits that description, a smug one that went out of his or her way to prove to religious people they're wrong. You meet a lot of these?

All the atheists I meet are like this. They always seem arrogant, as if they alone have discovered the secret of the "imaginary god".

I've met a few yeah, and the internet is rife with them.

I have to agree with these guys, I find elitist atheists with the same frequency I find your stereotypical pushy Christian. It's one of the reasons I find it hard to label myself an atheist, for fear of being associated with those pretentious assholes

I'm Christian by personal choice.

I am a strong atheist. I guess one could call me an anti-theist in that I am against any for of theism. I don't believe theism to be the root of the problem though. Just the fact that theism is irrational. Any belief in a higher deity is idol worship. You should be worshiping the human spirit if anything. Worship yourself, not as if you were a deity, but as if you were a hero. I am one of the atheists who goes out of his way to prove religious people wrong. That is because I would do the same with any Nazi. Nazism is a destructive philosophy just as I believe theism is. Neither are roots of the problem, but they are part of it. I dislike Agnosticism because it is fence sitting. They say that we should just consider the God question beyond positive or negative because we have no proof of existence or nonexistence. However, there is no ultimately positive aspect of spirituality just as there is no ultimately positive aspect of taking 'shrooms or doing acid to "enlighten" yourself.

Two plus two equals four. If someone goes on to say that it equals five he better have a damn good reason for believing what he does. Otherwise, I will do the honor of tearing his argument to pieces so that he won't be deceiving people. I would hope everyone else would do the same.

This is about to get good.

This is about to get pointless.:rolleyes:

Well, this thread wasn't really made for arguing viewpoints but rather sharing them if it's at all possible to keep the two separated. I want people to share their beliefs and answer the poll so that we can learn something about the community that discusses these topics. Although people may disagree strongly with many of the things brought up here, I would personally like it if some of these potential whos-right-arguments and discussions were kept to the current events forum.

I can see how it may be hard to keep it in when Inuzuka paralells theism to nazism, though .. but discussing which belief here is "right" is not the topic.