why the creationist view promotes war , page-54

Taughtbuffet,

You say "take away religion and you'll all soon crave it back, but it will be too late then. And why are you athiests so scared to type the word Christ, why do you have to abbreviate Xtian, Xod,...do you think that will make him go away?

1. We had a period where the Church ruled Europe. It was called the 'Dark Ages'

2. I never used the abbreviatian Xod.

3. Religious types impede progress because they have wackadoodle beliefs that get in the way of progress (Example: stem cell research). They believe in a guiding intelligence in the universe that is especially concerned with the sexual behavior of one species on one small planet.
They believe that they must spend time and money placating this intangible being by worshipping it or, preferably, giving money to its self-appointed intermediaries.
Christians believe that the universal sentient principle that rules the universe somehow condensed itself down into the form of one man, and that because he was killed (only not really), this god is now able to forgive us for an act of willfull fruit scrumping by one of our distant ancestors.
And the reward for this forgiveness is that some undefinable fraction of our consciousness will be permitted to live forever in an invisible church in the sky, rather than being set on fire and suffering eternal torment.

I would be quite able to agree that Christians are mostly harmless. But when you look objectively at the goofball ideas that they consider to be essential core beliefs of their religious philosophy, it’s a fair cop to say that they also look like freakin’ idiots.