re: #83 c6gunner

You do realize, don’t you, that Marx never used the phrase “opiate of the masses”?

I don’t think you need to be flawed to believe in gods - I think it’s the natural condition of man. But whether it’s natural is irrelevant to the question of whether it’s based on reality.

Fair enough about Marx, that’s not the point.

What’s ironic is that it seems that you’re saying, if I am reading you correctly, that it’s man’s condition to be flawed: in this case, believing in God. How ironic that this concept is also a Christian tenet. But that’s not the point either.

The point is that you seem to hold people that believe in God as flawed, or that they aren’t being based in reality. Am I mistaken?

If so, I take issue with that even though I’m an atheist. I don’t hold somebody who believes in God as being mistaken, or flawed, or not being based in reality. Having said that, there’s lot of believers that are flawed and who’s faith may be based on some flaws (YEC’s LOL), but belief in God is not in and of itself a flaw or worthy of my judgment. They believe and have faith in God, and I respect that without thinking they are mistaken or not basing themselves in reality.