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A little about myself.
1. I am what some would call a weak atheist. For the uninitiated, this does not mean the grounds of my atheism, the logic upon which I have built it, is shaky, but rather that I simply disbelieve in God (I don't, as the strong atheist, make the absolutist statement "there is no god").
2. After 12 years of a high priced catholic school education I became and atheist and renounced the Catholic church, like most people who go to Catholic school for 12 years. I have to agree with dookus: more suffering, pain, and death has been caused, either directly or indirectly, by the idea of god and religion than has ever been caused by anything that the natural world can spew out. Okay, that statement might be treading hyperbole, but the point is god+religion= crapload of suffering.
3. Yes, the evil done by religion outweighs any good, since any good, I would argue, would be the natural consequent of a humanist ethic.
4. A note to my good christian, muslim, jewish, etc. DU'ers: I love you guys, but please don't proselytize. Us atheists have to spend time in your theist world feeling, or being made to feel, frankly, sub-human. I'll respect your right to believe as long as you respect my right not to.
and that's it. Atheists and Agnostics of DU, unite!
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