I “prefer carrots and maybe you, Chris prefer peas”. I am on my own journey in life. And you are on your own journey in life and we will just leave it at that.
Have a nice day, Chris.

Same with atheism, good atheism is Brad Pitt’s type where he gets off his butt and does many good charitable works. A prince of a guy. The bad kind of atheism is one that expresses the very same intolerance that religions are accused of.

Mike I prefer the foolishness of God to the wisdom of humans who must all die one day. I prefer God to piles of things that are one day subject to rust, rot or corrosion.

Since God is spiritual God cannot die. God is beauty, truth, order, exactness. God has nelped me in ways that atheism never has.

Athiesm has left me with a void that things that break and people who can die, who can hurt, leave, disappoint and reject never could.

God gives me the resilience to keep on when the going is not easy.

I agree with TigerTzu and Debra on this.

My own gay-welcoming church has confirmed for me on a daily basis in the interactions I have with it that foolish God supposedly fit only for preschoolers has a permanent place in my life.

Mike S, I recognize the good that both atheists and religious folk have done. Brad Pitt is for me an atheist who does tremendous good and I respect his work to help Katrina victims get some housing built for them.

Similarly, those religious folk who fight tooth and nail for gay rights and to kill things like Prop 8 are some of the best friends the gay community has.

My own church is run by a white woman preacher who is marride to a black man and who is totally for gay rights. The major focus of our church is help those far less fortunate than ourselves. We are out there helping feed the needy and the homeless, every other month we make piles of sandwiches for the homeless mens shelter. We give 600 bags of food each year to a local food for the needy program. We give piles of practical items to the poor women and their kids at a local county shelter that has these women of their own free will in a 2 year program that teaches child care and cooking skills, job and independent living skills to these women.

Every year we weed, paint and fix up the garden and home of a senior citizen no longer able to do or to pay for these things.

We help clean up the local stream.
We put our faith to practical use helping others and our community.

I fight for gay rights every day and keep up with gay news.

Right now I have my sights on defeating an antigay Maryland legislator who won’t quit reviving efforts for a MD constitutional amendment that has failed every time.

I consider my church to have some very rational people in it making a diference in their lives and in the community as well. These are well-educated middle-class people raising kids and doing what is in their own power in a group setting and individually as well to help those less fortunate than themselves in an organized and practical way.

Our church has a highly motivated knitting group to which I belong that knitted and crocheted a big pile of hats and acarves for the homeless we feed. I am working on a 5 ft long scarf for the homeless that will be finished next week and that will keep a homeless person a bit warmer in our 25 degree weather in the DC area.

Thanks for your input Mike S. and have a very nice day.