Thanks mate.
It's so predictable that the stupid creationists, will always love to catagorize those that prefer to "think"rather then accept the biblical account.
I can't call them stupid in so far as I realise ...to generalise...they are raised that way, to reject their belief is in effect seeing their parents as liars, that is a big hurdle for anyone...their great difficulty of course is to consider anything they perceive as a threat...It does not take much to study history to understand where religion came from and why it is what we see today.
That is why religion fears education..education causes religion to be little more than a mist. Education to religion is what the rising Sun is to fog.
Anyone can research and find that JC was a knock off from various human gods from a multitude of cultures ... And the basis for all these human gods was astrology...but believers simply can not read such history...tricked with Santa they won't be crushed again...and so they avoid the, for them, painful exercise of researching anything that will bring bad similar pain to losing Santa.
Add the fear of hell and the promise of a second existence sees them wishing very hard that their truth needs no knowledge or education.
I understand.
To say they are stupid is perhaps too harsh...they just don't have enough information to reject and be stupid...they are in the dark with a torch with no batteries.
a book/fairy tale, written in an obscure age, by obscure men, with obvious obscure meanings in its text.
It is a puzzle to me why folk look to unknown ancient people.
I joke that they did not know where the Sun went at night but that is true..they had no idea....and yet folk think these ancient folk could know the answers to questions that one hundred years of science is still working upon and needless to say the folk working on cosmology today actually know where the Sun goes at night.
They ,theists, present their claim that scripture was inspired by their god yet ignore the mistakes and horrible morality ..heck if any book today contains just one mistake or a call to murder folk it would be rejected or banned.
Still atheism is an an un necessary position as these folk are allowing theists to qualify their absence of belief seeking to make their myth somehow real by giving it more than a casual thought.
That's why I have given up being an atheist as there is no point to take a position where all that exists is a usupported claims...it's a non event..
Science is the only option, no need to taken a position on truth just enjoy the tested models and how they help us understand reality...
Taking a position with a theist somehow gives their fantasy a level of existence that is simply not necessary.
That's why I am no longer an atheist.
Alex