Evidence again that we live in a theocracy was the near-passage of the Religious Rights law in Arizona. This law would allow businesses to refuse service to someone whose lifestyle was in violation of their religious dogma. Fortunately, it didn't escape the gay community that the law was aimed at them and they mounted a public campaign which inevitably forced Jan Brewer to concede the political cost was too great. That the bill even got as far as the governor's desk is an embarrassment. That religious people get more rights than the constitution allows is illegal. The bloody christians assert that their rights are being violated because their big guy in the sky doesn't like what some people do with their nasty bits. Believe whatever myth and nonsense you want, but that doesn't give you extra rights. What adults do with their nasty bits is not mine, the government's or any religious nut cases business. When we accede to the delusional superior rights under the law, then the law becomes delusional and we are all in a world of hurt.
Yes you are confused and you always will be when you mistake certainty for knowledge and superstition as evidence. Absence of gawd is inclusion of emprical evidence. People who use knowledge of the world to make decisions rather than inexplicalbe mythology will make better decisions. The need for authority worship is obviously in our makeup. There are still kings and queens and celeberties and politicians whom we treat as deities. It is a human weakness and attribute but that doesn't mean we should let it continue unabated. I am against any person who attempts to justify their action because they believe some cosmic muffin told them so.
Vonnegut: “Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile."
We give the religous respect and cultural leeway when they deserve neither. At least atheists aren't blowing themselves and others up because a mythical book told them so. They're also not protecting child rapists and if they were they could be arrested and not protected like cardinal mahoney and other members of the catholic sodomy society.
