[super gerbil]

As cyphen pointed out, your poll seems very degrading and even lenient towards an anti-religious point of view.

In my opinion, religion is a way of life...something that sets ones, if any, moral code. Does not necessarily need a god/gods.


This post is a good read too:

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Originally Posted by cyphen

It seems that the non-religious and particularly the anti-religious tend to characterize and demean the religious as believing in silly magical beings...

why is that? where does that arrogance come from? What makes you think God uses "magical" powers??? I've long held the belief that nothing supernatural exists.... meaning that everything that exists is natural. Indeed, many of the things you might think of as supernatural - miracles in the bible - are far from it. Think for instance of parting the red sea.... magical god powers, right? Something supernatural, right? Why would God, who created everything including nature, need to use anything other than that which he created??

How did god part the red sea according to the bible? A strong westerly wind that blew all night...

it's the lack of understanding (or desire to understand) on the part of those mischaracterizing it that gives them this view.

If someone from 31 A.D. were to see us do something as simple as walking into a supermarket, they might think we were wizards... "he can command the very doors of the buildings to open at his bidding!!!"