What pompous, self-righteous sanctimonious clap trap.

All humans are desires encased  in flesh, matter. Religion comes from a common human desire to connect to our roots. Religion is the animal ego in man that jumbled up material things with this desire to use as a psychological therapy for this lack in our being. It lasts so long because it works as a manipulator of the peasants psychological need for acceptance and place in our world. Religion is the perversion of the true desire to ask the question “why do I exist?” Only humans have this question but the ego is stronger. We will all reach the same conclusion, we are just at a very young level of development. Like unripe fruit. We are all one soul, Adam that is totally in the presents of our true reality, yet we don’t perceive it yet. We live in a dream. The whole atheist and religious argument is the writers block of our development of a script that we can all accept. Think of humanity as a schizophrenic person who created peaces in order to heal itself. This is humanity. To understand religion you must understand Kabbalah. Here is a link to a wide spreading science that is compelling so many people to connect to our roots: The creator. http://www.perceivingreality.com/

All I can say is that just because something has existed for centuries this does not make it correct. My proof of this? Well many religions have existed for centuries which all contradict one another and they can’t all be right can they? So once again just because something has existed for hundreds of years doesn’t act as proof. What religion does is serve a purpose. When I spoke to my ex a few days ago she revealed that she had become much more catholic and when I asked her why she told me “it’s just comforting.” I didn’t correct her because I didn’t feel it was my place to do so and perhaps I was being condescending by not giving her my full opinion but surely you can’t make a conscious decision to believe something just because it makes you feel better? Sure it’s comforting but so is eating junk food or drinking alcohol but we can’t all do that indefinitely. I don’t blame people for wanting religion to be true, I want it to be true, anyone would but unfortunately I would rather know the truth in the hope that I might discover something beyond it that will lead to genuine utopia than to settle with a lie that makes me feel better for now but ultimately leads nowhere.

I guess you also believe in the greek / roman gods? no? those are just fantasy right…  but they were around for a long long time so clearly by your logic they should..

How about Krishna, buddha, muhammad, or any number of “old religions” that people just conveniently forget about if it conflicts with their flavour of the month omnipresent deity.

I’m gonna go ahead and use religious ignorance here against you and say that I know FOR A FACT that god doesn’t exist.. you know why? Cause I blindly believe it.  

I went to church and and Sunday school every Sunday for 20 years. I also went to a Christian church and high school. Not only did I go, but I absolutely believed everything about it. After a while I realized that religion never had answers to the important questions and their answer to everything seemed to always be have faith. Chances are I probably not only know more but have also memorized more verses of the bible than you. The only conclusion that I have ever been able to come to is that the more you learn about religion and the bible, the more the believability of it starts to unravel. Try thinking for yourself for a change, it might be scary but at least you will still have your integrity. Personally I think peoples religious beliefs and zealotry have caused them to commit some of the most immoral and “ungodly” atrocities the world has ever seen. Just look at the Spanish Inquisition and the crusades. In my view conforming to the subservience of religious authorities has to be the biggest obstacle in the way of people coming in touch with their true spirituality, notice how I speak of the two as completely different concepts. I mean you have this beautiful gift of a brain, try using yours.   

There is a great point in caring what other people feel even if there isn’t a superior being, it’s called morality. I’m an atheist and I try to be as kind and selfless as I can, because I care about other people being happy rather than in pain. That’s my main beef with religion: the only reason religious people don’t kill, steal etc is because they don’t want to be punished by god, not because they think it’s morally wrong anyway. And answering you’re other question “if there is nothing more -why bother?”….why not simply enjoy your short time on earth? use it for good, to help other people, or just make it exciting while you can. I feel for you, we are both going to die, and when we do, we will be 6 feet deep and that is all. The only difference is that I will have lead a free life and you have lived under a dictatorship. Stop wasting your life, you can free yourself.