China Doll //And it can come across as judgemental when alot of athiests I know seem to prize themselves on being non-judgemental... //
The religious have certainly been judgemental about the beliefs of the non-religious for a very long time. Indeed often at pain of death for anyone who dared to commit what they called heresy.
Atheists have every right to be judgemental about the philosophies of the religious. They have and still do bring so much trouble to this planet, our planet, not theirs to destory because their prophecies say it will.
They tell us it will be destroyed but miraculously restored once the unbelivers all die. They are quite happy to see through the destruction in total faith that once we hit rock bottom that God will come back and fix everything.
Well sorry but I don't see it getting fixed and I am sick and tired of the faithful happily getting on with the destruction.
Anyone who stands up to be counted in these religions is standing up and in effect saying, "Armageddon, bring it on", because these prophecies are the very core of the faith.
The faithful pretend the wicked, vengeful, brutal God of the Bible is not really there. To those I say, "Read the Book". Too many believers know nothing of what they are actually subscribing too. Believe all you like in the lovey-dovey stuff but when you are backing the horrible Hebrew God brought to you by people who would be convicted of Child Abuse and Crimes Against Humanity in a modern world.
This God id in itself, the inspiration of Abraham, a man who was on the verge of the ritual murder of his son. The proof of this God is a relentless onslaught of genocide by those who heard God telling them to massacre every man, woman and child in more then thirty tribes.
These people were psychopaths yet their inspiration is the basis for an exalted philosophy? These people are the last that we should seek as gaudes. They have modern day equivalents such as David Koresh and Jimmy Jones and should be treated the same.
The prevalence of religious notions lies behind what is wrong in the world today. Far from needing more of it we need for these arrogant fools to stop teaching rubbish to the young so that religion can eventually die out and provide an opportunity for sanity.