Some users are so predictable I know who they are before I even click on the thread just based on title alone. I also wonder if some users use this forum purely for politics and religious debate... which would be sad if true, but not surprising at all.

We really need Nintendo to give us some NX information! I do enjoy talking about politics, but sometimes I like getting my mind off of all the horrors in the world.

Politics section wouldnt be so bad if they weren't the #1 cause of bans on this forum. I'm willing to bet 90% of warnings and 80% of bans come JUST from political threads alone. The political thread option was the biggest mistake ever made for this site

You can kill off the Christian god, but you'll never kill off the concept of a higher power. People will always believe there's something up there looking over us, whether it be Jesus, Buddha, or a flying spaghetti monster.

I don't think it'll go away, but I do think that it'll be like 50/50 religious and atheistic.
Religion isn't a good thing but extrimist make it bad. There's no reason you should kill people or deny people because of religion. I don't think any religion actually teaches those sort of things.

Creatio ex nihilo is something exclusively touted by the religious. It is considered by virtually all philosophers to be wholly devoid of merit. You appear to have quite an extensive misapprehension about modern physics if you're confused about this.

Your argumentum ad passiones fallacy is duly noted. 

Logic clearly isn't your forte, perhaps try coloring instead.

Are you a Mountebank or just ignorant? What you've stated here about Dawkins and Hitchens is a complete fabrication and approaches libel. The only people Hitchens advocated hating is those like ISIS who publicly embrace the idea of killing Americans and other non-muslims. Essentially Hitch took their threats as seriously as they ought have been taken. 

Dawkins on the other hand hasn't even insinuated anything of the sort. He's derided religion itself no doubt, but that's attacking an idea not a person or persons. 

Frank Turek is quite literally the definition of a charlatan. His arguments are terrible, he panders only to those who already believe this nonsense, and he implodes whenever he's forced to confront inconsistencies in his own reasoning. I suspect he also has a below average IQ.

Lennox may be a solid mathematician but again he fails at even basic reasoning.

WLC is similar to Frank but I actually suspect is competent as a philosopher having invested time into reading his secular works on time. That actually works in his disfavor though given that his apologetics arguments are quite dismal.

I'm not very familiar with Berlinski. Looks like yet another paid yuppie for the Discovery Institute, which is a Christian Fundie organization which attempts to promulgate Intelligent Design as science. By the way, Berlinski isn't a scientist, has exactly 0 published works in any journals. Might as well be a homeless man talking about how evolution is nonsense.

As to whether world atheism will ever happen, it's a certitude at this point so long as the world continues to become increasingly educated. Religion only flourishes in the most unlettered of nations. In every developed country, it has been decreasing for quite some time.

You do know that the seven-headed beast in Revelations is a symbol for the seven-hilled city of Rome, right?  Right??  

You are clearly trying to incite a flame war.  Shame on you.  

The OP is trying so hard to make religion look like a faith of idiots, all I can say to him is ' no need, any intelligent person can see that already'
I wish there was god, oh I wish it with all my heart

but Christianity = Jediism = Moslem = Pastafarianism
all the same
No evidence of any, no rational being thinks this, flying spaghetti monster, jesus son of god, give me a break

1. Atheism has nothing to do with religion. It only states your position that you don't believe in a god or gods.

2. There are atheistic religions, but atheism is not a religion.

3. The world of free will is not necessarily true.

4. I suppose that chastisement was also a part of tradition and still is in some places, which validates your last statement.