I remember a discussion once with a woman who told me that because I am a godless athiest, clearly I have no morals, no ethics, no kindness and no faith, because they can only be found in the bible.
My morality does not come from a book. It comes from common sense.
As for the bible. It boggles the mind that it is still some kind of precious tome of knowledge and morality. You have people like Westboro, upholding the book to the letter and claiming religious righteousness, and others telling us that most of it is "not relevant" today because we are more enlightened and know that slavery and oppressing women is a bad thing, but please go read it to make you a moral person. Funnily they are also saying the Westboro mob are batshit crazy and distance themselves from them, but they are reading the same book! I do not think, as a woman, I can learn anything from a book that tells me I am the worthless property of my husband.
Now god, apparently, has not seen fit to speak to ANYONE at all to update it in a couple of milennia. In fact, when someone claims that god has spoken to them, everyone calls them nut cases and liars.. What, he suddenly decided to stop visiting us when we developed mental health care? But there isn't a chance that 2000 years ago, a couple of undiagnosed lunatics with voices in their head started spouting a bunch of nonsense. Millions of followers with the churches some of the richest organisations in the world? The chances of anyone admitting the possibility that they are following the advice of an ancient schizophrenics insane mutterings is completely negligible.
Now I used to be tolerant of it all. I was just fine with the idea of being laid back and allowing freedom of religion while I was given freedom from religion.. but
