How am I a piece of shit? Do those quotes exhibit logic and perhaps you are Christian yourself and it strains your brain?
Chew on this:
1.) there's no valid evidence for supernatural entities
2.) the Christian Bible (which is supposed to be evidence for one particular god) is full of inaccuracies, errors and evils which contradict that god's properties as commonly postulated, rendering it as useless as any other ancient religious text in terms of valid evidence for the supernatural
all the thousands of other gods that have been invented throughout history have a similar lack of evidence
3.) the existance of religion is easily explained in natural terms when you look at the big picture - it evolved as a way to comfort people in their miserable lives as well as enforce societal rules and allow people in early civilizations to be controlled
4.) a very telling fact is that over time, gods have been required to explain less and less of the universe, as our knowledge (obtained through the scientific method) has expanded (see Galileo). This "god-of-the-gaps" gets smaller and smaller over time, and I've no reason to think it won't disappear eventually
5.) the so-called "yearning" to believe in higher powers stems from early man's ignorance of the workings of the universe and the desperate need to explain and hopefully control natural processes such as weather - there was nothing more important to early agricultural civilizations than reliable seasons
oh, almost forgot, it provides an easy comfort for our understandable fear of death
6.) there is no absolute morality ordained by a higher power - all attempts to define one degenerate into huge grey areas
And last, for you: "Creationists are small-minded, malevolent, not very bright and can't get their science right - definitely made in God's image."
- anon
