As cute as your attempt was to psychoanalyze and pigeonhole all non-theists into a convenient box of your own conception, here's the fact of the matter: We don't believe in gods because there exists no evidence whatsoever that such beings exist or have ever existed. It's really as simple as that.
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26 Jul 2012 3:03PM
Excellently put! I hope this young OP has physically met the "woman" of his dreams, lest he discover "she" is really some backslidden old Babtist preacher who gets his jollies off trolling the young and the gullible.
Will he day ever come when mankind matures beyond its myths, and accepts the universe for what it is? Somehow, I doubt it.
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26 Jul 2012 5:24PM
i never get when people say things along the lines of what you did there at the end.
if/when all people move away from religion, what exactly do you think is going to happen?
Everyone's going to magically be pals? nope. overwhelming evidence against that. people are dicks and always fight each to other for next to reason, like London's summer riots last year, since the dawn of time.
is science going to magically reach unknown levels? nope. since when was the last time that a religion internationally stopped science from progressing, especially for those that currently don't beileve in anything?
there's not going to be more people studying science either. people who don't like science now, won't with religion gone. it's like maths. those that are interested will to learn more, but to everyone else, it's boring and they can't be arsed. Especially if means moving away from the tv and kfc.
not to memtion that truth is most of the people in the main religions (especially the "leaders" of each), believe in evolution and never doubted it in the first place. It's just that the few extra stupid wackos get the media coverage.
if you don't want to be like the folks who think a magic beard's going to save them, then fine. I'm certainly in no hurry to do so. But don't assume there's going to be some big laa de daa change across the world as soon as religion's forgotten.
The only change is that tv ratings on a sunday morning will go up is all.
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26 Jul 2012 5:32PM
"since when was the last time that a religion internationally stopped science from progressing,"
I suspect that Socrates, Giordano Bruno, and all the other great scientific thinkers whose lives were pointlessly sacrificed on the altar of religious dogma, would be more than a little offended at this assertion.
