Why atheism?

Let's just say, christians, muslims, jews, buddhists, hindis, taoists, shintos, confucianists, sikhs, have all been around for AT LEAST 1000 years each.

Still haven't gotten it right.

Unless you like wars, famine, greed, hypocrisy, caste systems, overpopulation, fascism and just about every other ailment you could attribute to mankind and his works.

But Drew, those are the acts of a minority, of people twisting the words of Confucious, Christ, Muhammad and many others.

I mean sure if you put a hundred random religiosos in a room, I personally would agree with 90% of the spiritual beliefs of about 90% of the folks there.

And you could probably say the same about each of them agreeing with each other individually.

It's not the spirituality that I find offensive, it's the dogma.

And I'm sorry but if you sign on with folks who think that you're going to hell for marrying a black person, or eating meat on fridays, or believe in a caste system, well guess what?

You're one of them.

Regardless of what the religious right says about stem cell research and abortion, how many really horrific atrocities have been carried out purely in the name of Science?

My wife and I came up with just a few.
Manhattan Project.
Experimentation on animals.
Eugenics projects and Human experimenation of the Germans and Japanese during WWII.

Although that last one, I'm not sure if I'd blame science, but hey I'm biased.

Now I'm not saying technology doesn't have a down-side, but no-one ever invades another country in the name of Millimeter Wave Astronomy.

Frankly I am sick of bad science being used to justify all kinds of horrible shit.

I can imagine that folks who are religious say the same thing, only problem is how can you tell which one is the "bad religion"?

We have ways of quantifying bad science. Scientific method. Peer review. Reproducible experimentation. Just good ol' fashion skepticism.

Discussions get heated but we tolerate each other.