...and you appear to be the leader of the pack... Practice reason, and you will have no need to feign being more reasonable than your fellows...
He's a fricken 1 trick pony troll with 140 pgs of posts on the same subject, talk about a huge OCD . The great irony is: his OCD is caused by something he claims doesn't exist :eek: . Ignore him and he will just slither away until his search bots find "god" too frequently and he will be obliged to chime in with his venom of self loathing.
what exists is the people who claim to speak for this imaginary deity. Seneca the Younger 4 b.c.- 65 a.d. Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. Steven Weinberg: With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
I cannot see why an atheist could not do something evil out of mere self-interest. And what about an evil person doing something good, what's the motive there?