religious people may belive that those that arent religious "making the rules" is a bad idea because they dont have the word of god/jesus to guide them. are they any more right than you are? they may also feel that laws made by atheists are trying to impede on their beliefs. 

and why should they have to shut their trap when you (and many others) obviously wont and/or dont want to?

I believe in creation.  It by far makes the most sense.

what you see on TV really isnt "alot of the USA". in fact it is alot less than you might think. try not to generalize what you see on TV as the entire country.

Here's my take on it.

We don't know enough about the universe. How can we in one breath, discuss the infinite possibilities of it, and in another breath lambast our fellow man for developing an ideology. There are far too many secular progressives amongst this age backet who are just as zealotous as any creationist, and far more mean spirited, so who is really the bad guy here? When you could absolutely care less about how you treat people, then you are. The thing religion instills is a sense of morals, which many of you are obviously missing, and it's a failure of society.

I knew someone would pull me up on that. Yes, it probably isnt a fair generalisation but from everything I know about it it does seem to be a very Conservative Christian country, especially compared to the UK, which, judging by politically based stories Ive seen of the two, is much more accepting of different beliefs and lifestyles.

People feel free to have a go at shooting this down, Im interesting to see your reasoning

And that's why atheists are against religious people. They read it in a fairy tale and then they want to make everyone behave by it. I am sorry no, I don't want people who are so gullible as to fall for unicorns to dictate how people live their lives. Hence, it needs to stop. I don't want anything of them other than to shut the hell up and keep their fiction out of my reality. That's exactly the difference between the two. Religious people are offensive, while atheists are just playing defense. As I said, I can't give a damn about what someone believes, but apparently religious people really feel the need to tell me what to do according to them.

Well considering that scientific data is about as manipulated by the Elite as religions today I dont see how any of you can justify your answers when both are propagated. Look what they did with man made global warming for example. It came out in the media last year that the University that the U.N had hired had been manipulating the data they were providing to make it appear as if the Earth was getting warmer when in fact temperatures had been cooling in the past 10 years.  http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100017393/climategate-the-final-nail-in-the-coffin-of-anthropogenic-global-warming/ (There's alot more sites to look into if you google "climate Gate")

daaaaamn straight. I'm tired of all this ahteist/ satanistest propaganda in the U.S. today. I remember the good ole days when you culd say God in the pledge, see "In God We Trust" on all the currency, and when creationism was an accepted historical fact. Nowadays you see a "Don't Believe in God? You're not alone," bullcrap on a poster in some ghetto. I too am sick and tired of being force fed this godless crap. Now they're trying to remove the biblical commandments out of the courtrooms and trying to axe the national day of prayer. Talk about rude and intrusive!

have you visited the US lately? yes, it is a relatively conservative country. however, there are far more liberals here than you might think.

the US is the home to people from every different walk of life, culture, beliefs, and lifestyles on the planet. inevitably, a person's beliefs clash with somebody else's, leading to a seemingly less accepting society. it isnt that we arent accepting, hell im willing to try almost anything, its that its just hard for everyone to accept the samething when there are so many who feel it is wrong based on their culture and/or beliefs. especially when they drag that stuff into politics.

hopefully someday the whole world, including the US, will be able to accept everyone and everything. that wont happen for a while, but i think it can.