Religion is the devil's work

[Illusion]

pearljammer said:

Illusion said:

Now I could stoop to the level of this thread and take this opportunity to point out all of the heinous things that athiests have done over the past couple of centuries, but I am not going to. I believe, like Pope Francis, that athiests can also be good people and if they seek the truth then God can and will work in their lives.

There is a distinct difference between atheists who have committed awful evils and atheists who commit awful evils in the name of atheism. The latter, I'm sure, is largely disproportionate when compared to religions.

I agree that it's hard to kill in the name of atheism but that is because atheism defines itself by the lack of something.  Hatred towards religion by atheists, however, has lead to many great evils (look at how Christians were treated in the USSR or how they are being persecuted in communist China today).  I see this same hatred towards religion on this thread, and while it hasn't gotten to point of outright persecution I promise if you and American society continues to focus on the negative sides of religion and forcibly ignore the positives it's only going to be a matter of time until your hatred is great enough to take away another person's freedom and possibly even their life.