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Originally Posted by Mutt
I've been hearing ministers and priests the past few days speaking about the Newtown tragedy and now I'm hearing these public service Christmas greetings from ministers and priests on radio stations I listen to. It drives me nuts, these are not JohnnyClips type people but they unequivocally believe that there's a man in the sky running this show. You can throw all the science you want at them and it doesn't matter - they just keep repeating things as if they were true. It drives me nuts even though I am tolerant of anybody's beliefs but it just makes no sense to me, it's like having a mentally ill friend with anorexia who keeps saying they're fat when they look like a skeleton. 2 to 3 thousand years ago to primitive men in the Bronze Age I understand how they believed in this insane fantasy world.
I'm only an agnostic because I believe in science so much and I know that in another 2000 years science will discover so much more than we know now - so i keep an open mind, something God like could exist.
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Imagine how it must be for someone who believes in God to come here and see their faith repeatedly ridiculed on a near daily basis.
For the record, I am a Christian (albeit not a very good one) and believe in God. Unlike many of the atheists who post here, I don't feel the need to shove my personal beliefs down other peoples throats. Turn the other cheek, and all that.