[patapata]

"The only reason I used to be a Christian is because I was born into a Christian famo, as in, if I was born a Chute ama an Arab, I'd have been a Hindu or a Muslim respectively. People born into those religions follow blindly coz thats all they know - I chose to be an atheist after being unable to find any evidence that god exists, while finding plenty of logic to indicate that he doesn't exist."

->Just hold on one second, ATLian, why do you assume that all believers simply have blind faith? You cite lack of evidence as a reason for your atheism. But hundreds see evidence for the existence of a superior being in the world around them and in their daily experiences. They believe, not just because they were born into faithful families, but because god's existence is evident to them. Not all faith is blind.
->It's more a question of how you read and interpret the environment around you. We are all receptive to different types of stimuli depending on who we are. To someone who can read Kanji, the street signs in Japan make sense. To someone who cannot, they are unintelligible. To someone who is receptive to the idea that a superior being exists, an amoeba could be evidence for a creator-god. To someone who isn't, that does not suffice as evidence for god's existence. The theist and atheist live in the same environment, but are receptive to different 'languages'. The signs and objects around them will have different meanings to each one. Who's to say who's right?