Quote:WE live in curious, irritating times. We are oppressed by superstition and absurd ideologies. We must understand at the root of much that is wrong with the world is a single, common, insidious factor: religion.
YES!
Quote: At least according to public atheists and anti-theists, a remarkable number of whom have devoted large amounts of air time and ink lately to bashing Christians in particular and religious believers in general
Muslims and jews more than christians.
Quote:Militant atheists are right
Yes we are
Quote:see religious believers in or behind many of the great struggles of our time.
Its historical fact.
Quote:They are wrong, however, to then conclude that humankind must therefore scrap religion.
Absurd statement.
Quote:than the relatively well-documented resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth
People do NOT rise from the dead.
Quote: only a belief that God directly controls the actions of believers -
That is what they claim.
Quote:man, left to his own devices, is a fairly despicable creature.
That is true anyway- why fight it.
Quote:In the absence of a divinely endorsed militia, the most obvious explanation for war and chaos is that humans take up arms and nations of humans continually declare war, and for many reasons.
Yeah, against opposing ideals and for land.