we have 0 issue in society with mocking or hating on people who believe in faries or dragons, yes? but i dont see how thoose beliefs are more or less vaild than religous ones, we have no evidence of either.

why is this?

People who believe in faeries and dragons don't get us into wars i guess :p

because?

that kinda proves my point, we give religon the power to cause wars, but not people who belive in dragons, surely, neither should be taken seriously? (in terms of evidence to support it)

because of what?

because...

is not a reason, its a pre-text to a reason, i dont like you because... - is not a reason, i dont like you because youre arrogant and talk down to me, is a reason.

^ somebody has something to say

On topic

Who said they are not hated! I despise them, and I hunt them down in my free time! Like Buffy does Vampires!

Yep, I think of it like this. I can see how someone can believe in a general creator (agnostic), that's a kind of plausible thing to believe in (even though I don't). But to believe in a specific god isn't IMO. This is because all gods have the same bearing as far as evidence is concerned. And so this leads me to the conclusion that believing in a personal god is a waste of time, because you have a one in a million chance of getting it right, so why even bother devoting your life to just one if you're going to do it?

However, this is just my opinion.

surely, the scientific view should be much more important than what is essentially ancient primitive beliefs with no evidence?

^Yes and the scientific method always should be above anything when finding the truth. Developing a testable hypothesis and finding evidence to develop it into a theory is a good logical way of finding out what's really going on

in which case, we must remove all religon from government and remove any exemptions for religous people or organisations within our legal system