you either live in a very different world than me or you haven't been alive long enough to see how fucked up people can be even if they are religious or have a good amount of wealth.

So, by the opinion of someone who's outed himself as a rather devout follower of god (you), I'm a bad person because not only do I not believe in god, but I feel that the very belief is irrational.  Why does that not surprise me?  does it have something to do with "thou shalt not worship false gods before me"?  does the idea that I reject your fantasy and substitute my own reality offend you?  Yes, yes it does.  I'm sorry if I've upset you or any other religious people here, but frankly, I have a problem with what I call "aggressive ignorance".  

I could elaborate, but I'm kinda busy because I'm off to donate blood.  Oh, and later this week I'm giving most of my stuff to the salvation army and volunteering to help in a homeless shelter.  Yep, I'm such a horrible person with horrible ideals.  Great judge of character your god is. 

I couldn't give 2 shits if you think my belief is irrational or not.What pisses me off is your hypocrisy arrogance and intolerance. How you act all mighty and superior towards anyone who is like padib, how you call him intolerant when you clearly despise everything religious, how you call him homophobic, when anyone can clearly see HE does not hate queers. Funny how you immediately jumped on accusations bandwagon to expose my "religious evilness" and how horrible my God is (even though i never used that word, but whatever works for ya), but it ain't gonna work on me. Im not like padib, i wouldn't spend 5 seconds justifying my faith to a person like you

I don't show hatred towards god, I was showing his hypocrisy.  

I am not donating blood, I am not doing any volunteer work, but he didn't know that.  (I'm only not doing the above because I can't, not because I don't want to.) The point of the argument was to show how stupid it was to assume I was a horrible, selfish, judgemental, closemined, ignorant person simply because of my (justified) hatred towards ONE thing.  well, two.  I hate Final Fantasy XIII as well, but that's a much less powerful hatred.  The point is: I'm a great person, they just like to see me as a monster because I think religion is a horrible, ignorant waste of time, and I have no qualms about saying so rather than playing politically correct and censoring my words.  

if you don't care, then why are you STILL arguing with me about it?  if you didn't care, you'd be happy to sit back and ignore this thread.  The fact is, you DO care, because my assertion that following religion is a willful act of ignorance (Faith is belief without proof) makes your world view feel threatened and you feel the need to act out aggressively.  

I do not despise EVERYTHING religious, just the bad or stupid parts. you know, like that whole "The world is 6000 years old, evolution is a myth, dinosaurs aren't real, and praying is the path to healing" BS.  I've said multiple times that the non-aggressive, non-judgemental religious people are GREAT!  many of my best friends are religious, and one of which has actually been studying to become an ordained preist.  The ones who chose to use god as a reason to help others and be non-judgemental, and understand that Religion and Science are not mutually exclusive, those are the ones I like.  While they are the majority, there's more than enough people like you and padib that I see daily to remind me why I loathe religion so much.  Padib at least is trying to be more rational about yet, yet he still adheres to his ideals which consist of sexism and various other barbaric judgemental beliefs. 

And back to the topic at hand: THAT is why religion should have no place in this world except for the hearts of those who believe.  If you believe in god, good for you, but keep that shit to yourself.  As I've said DOZENS of times, the moment someone uses god or religion to judge others, act superior, or interfere in science, that's when I have a problem.  You, sir, are exhibit A. 

I hope you don't hate it too...I hate it when people hate things :P  Ideally, I'd rather not hate things, but some things are just so bad you gotta hate it.  

Oh shit, padibs got some skeletons in the closet! I would probably do what you are doing if I was bi. I'd focus on hetero, it's just easier with kids and making sure you have the correct balance of masculine and feminine influences on those kids (Not that homo couples can't, but it's just easier).

Sorry to butt in here xD 

Me, an Atheist, and my friend sat next to me, a Theist, disagree. 

It's funny how "Dislikes religion" automatically means "Hatefilled, horrible, immoral person" in the eyes of the truly devout.  I don't need false gods to tell me to be nice to others.  in fact, most people I know say I'm one of the nicest people they know.  I just have low tolerance for certain behaviours: pushing religion is one of them.  

Don't be too disappointed, I'm still making a huge deposit to the salvation army, I just can't volunteer at a homeless shelter because there are none for over 100 miles, and I can't donate blood beause I've had too much gay sex in my life.  It's a curse, I know.