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No. I am not, in any way, religious.

Where will we need it?

"The universe doesn't owe you a sense of hope" - Richard Dawkins. I don't agree that we should believe in something without any evidence just because it makes you feel warm and fuzzy. There is more to truth than that.

I am. All religion is blind faith.

It's not the same. The "faith" you have in friends etc. is earned and based off past experience. If every other person you had ever met was a massive wanker, you'd probably have a different idea of the human race. Faith in an imaginary friend is completely different. There is no experience to...

They all looked like the same question to me? I think you just proved my point for me. If religion isn't about seeking the truth, then clearly they don't care about truth?

If you are a religious believer, you are a believer in something without sufficient evidence to back up your claims. CLEARLY, if you believe something without evidence, you can't claim that you're actively seeking the truth? You're just believing things that make you feel nice.

As an atheist, that wasn't the intent! Atheism is a point of view on one specific question - does God exist. An Atheist shouldn't claim that God doesn't exist. The only thing an Atheist can claim is that there is absolutely no evidence to suggest that God exists, which is true. The fact that...

Incorrect? How so?

Really? "Most of us" are homophobic, xenophobic, racist, paedophilic slave-owners? So many people have been killed in the name of Christianity. Every day, kids get disowned by their parents because they're gay, and grown men and women cry rivers because they're convinced their sinning...

Atheism isn't a religion, it's not even a world view. Atheists don't have "faith" in anything.

The only way you could find religion attractive is if you don't care about whether what you believe in is true. There is no evidence whatsoever for any of it, and if you believe it you clearly don't value truth. As far as which religion I'd chose if I had to, it'd be Buddhism. It seems to focus...