This is a really stupid point by someone who has no real arguments. Like with faith, this is just sticking your hands over your ears and shouting “I HAVE A RIGHT TO BELIEVE WHAT I WANT”.

The response to this rather ignorant question is in the article itself, if you bothered to read beyond the bit you quoted. I listed approximately a dozen of reasons why I should care about what other people believe: mainly, because their lives overlap with mine.

“… the crusades, the protestant and catholic conflict in England during the 1600s, which continues even today in Northern Ireland, suicide bombings on London transport, the gunpowder plot, the witch hunts, the inquisition, the Indian partition, the Israeli-Palestinian wars, the Serb-Croat Muslim massacres and honour killings. Those who recognize that coherent logic must justify belief do not do this. Those who are receptive to logic and have an open mind don’t fly airplanes into buildings. That’s what the guy whose faith says that 72 virgins are waiting for him does.”

Why do you want to debate? Just accept that someone else doesn’t believe the same thing that you do and move on. If they are being deluded or whatever, how does that affect you? You might complain that Christians and other religious people force their beliefs on you, but you are doing the exact same thing.

Style – impeccable, perfectly abusive yet filled with reasoning
Content – every point made with solid evidence with abuse to make it entertaining

I was entertained throughout and left educated in the flaws of faith. 10/10

It may be the only sufficient explanation, but there simply is no evidence that points to any conclusion at the moment (at least that we can see), therefore we cannot leap to the conclusion that God created the universe. An equally sufficient explanation is that the universe has a cycle of expanding and contracting and our current universe was born when the previous universe had contracted. That is pure speculation, however, as is the God theory.

Euphorix – I never would have guessed you were an agnostic. (Although, I am an agnostic in the strict sense that I believe that we can never truly know whether or not a god – or several – exists.)

Some do believe that God can be proven with evidence, deists, and if I were religion, I would definitely be a deist.

I sure didn’t know that about the raisin/virgin thing. It’s similar to the number of the beast, and how it was mistranslated into 666, when it’s actually 696.

Anon -

You seem to be an agnostic? Or at least truly neutral and undecided. Regardless, you seem to follow the logic wherever it goes, a stance that I agree with.

Bobo, you should try to be a regular here

And Euphorix:

I’m neither of the two, just looking for truth in a world where everyone seems to have their own agenda. Looking for reality in a place where everyone invents their own and contests with everyone else to get you to subscribe to their version. I give all an equal chance, and have heard compelling arguments from all sides. I merely oppose yours in order to see your rebuttal to a potential counter-argument.