What two other people wrote about the religious fucktards who infest Idiot America.

For years only a small handful of Atheists have been vocal, and the majority of us have just gotten on with our lives not really debating or fighting against religious logic.

This has meant that we have allowed "Magical" thinking and a clear lack of logic being the backbone of debate. Effectively we have allowed the view that it is OK to have your own truth.

For instance, the current group of people who believe the election in the US was rigged, without even the smallest evidence - simply belief is enough.

Do you feel that if we had been more vocal that we could have been in a better position with the advancement of logic and science?

-- Rivga

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Not really. You can't fix stupidity. Even if Science presented them with 100% concrete proof of no God having ever existed, many still wouldn't be able to swallow it. On the other hand, if a Christian presented me with (ha ha) that kind of proof I could surrender my beliefs as a lifelong atheist. I'd have no choice to acknowledge the evidence that God did exist. I still wouldn't follow him because he's a grade A jerk.

I think religion is in the individual themselves. It's selfish. THEY get something from their religion they don't get anywhere else in their life or from themselves. I don't necessarily think it's brain-washing in every case. I can understand why kids believe - they believe anything they're told. But why do they grow up still believing? They grow out of Santa, Easter bunny, tooth fairy, unicorns, and mermaids. So why not that myth. There's no more evidence for God than for unicorns. And Santa actually DID exist. Why does the story of God still seem feasible to them - that I'll never understand. I do think it's a combination of lack of education, insecurity and gullibility. But it does puzzle me.

-- Amber