Man, I didn't realize there was so many anti-religious bigots on this forum.
I don't hate religious people so long as they don't start a crusade in my back yard. Unfortunately, this happens more frequently than anyone wants to admit. I do hate religion and what it often makes people do to themselves and others. This isn't bigotry any more than hating fascism and what it often makes people do to themselves and others. Religion, really, is the ultimate fascism anyways. Not liking songs praising God is, to me, the same as not liking songs praising Hitler. Although Hitler killed a lot less Jews than the Christian interpretation of God.
They are stupid? Because they don't have the same world view as you?
Exactly. Same goes for people who like Coldplay.
We shouldn't judge anybody about what they believe. Any atheist should know that it is a belief not a fact. Nobody knows until they die.
Atheism is not the belief there is no god. The nonexistence of god is a conclusion one comes to from the belief that empirical means can be used to understand the workings of the universe. When your worldview is based on observations and naturalistic explanations, you find that nothing besides the bible and a bunch of arm-waving supports the existence of anything remotely supernatural. This includes life after death, as we know that the mind exists as pattern, function, and chemical in the brain and we can watch that deteriorate after death. To argue that this pattern, function, and chemical is
somehow preserved after death because
we can't imagine a world in which we do not exist at least as some sort of observer is very egocentric and has no basis in empirical fact. This is off-topic, but I feel that this is a legitimate point to contend.
My whole point of this post: Come on everybody, can't we just agree to disagree?
My whole point of this post: Christian music sucks. Almost as much as Coldplay.