This is the type of loaded garbage that turned me away from religion. It wasn't any atheist books, lectures, it wasn't the evolution debate or any of the rest.
It was pure disgust at what the upright and self proclaimed religious people were doing and the dishonesty and lack of care for the poor or anyone else they showed. If they hadn't offered such good reason to start asking if the doubters might have a point it might never have come to it, but I'm more atheist than agnostic myself these days.
And surprise, more joy, hope, and interest in life than ever. Now it's in my hands, not someone else's. Morals evolved, they didn't come from a book. It's hate that we teach and modern religion does a great job of that. http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20070630/fob7.asp
It was pure disgust at what the upright and self proclaimed religious people were doing and the dishonesty and lack of care for the poor or anyone else they showed. If they hadn't offered such good reason to start asking if the doubters might have a point it might never have come to it, but I'm more atheist than agnostic myself these days.
And surprise, more joy, hope, and interest in life than ever. Now it's in my hands, not someone else's. Morals evolved, they didn't come from a book. It's hate that we teach and modern religion does a great job of that. http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20070630/fob7.asp