Wasn't all this stuff covered in The Religion Thread at MFIF? I have been lurking around this thread for awhile and it seems to me that people with different viewpoints are talking at each other (not to each other) and in the same way. I can only conclude that it is not possible to have a meeting of the minds between believers and non-believers. The mindset of each is totally incomprehensible to those of the opposite persuasion.
Just for the record, I'm a non-believer and I have decided that I don't care of someone is a believer provided that he/she leaves others alone and remains content to practice religion in private. If believing in a deity gets you through life, that's OK with me. Life is difficult enough as it is.
