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Atheism is not a belief in pointlessness, it is an acceptence of the finality and insignificance of our existence and a resolve to make this life, the only we get on the only planet we've got, count for something more than the theistic approach to life of "it'll all be better when jesus takes me for a sunbeam". It is this attitude among the faithful that allows people to blow themselves and others to pieces, to launch violent crusades over a barren tract of desert, to treat women with utter contempt and to poison the minds of children with books that are far and away more psycholgically destructive than watching horror movies could ever be (the bible and the koran should come with 18 certificates).

It would be an interesting experiment to see how long religion and God would survive if teaching religion to children was made illegal. It is fairly safe to assume that, after a generation or two, if a child wasn't exposed to religion until they reached adulthood they would find the whole idea of grown ups down the ages, believing that the creator of the universe who can't be seen is watching over us from a place that can't be seen and knows when you've been naughty and nice, has a special bad place for you if you step out of line and a wonderful place for you if you behave, a little bit retarded as they no longer believe in the toothfairy or santa claus which are just as childish a set of notions.

God is a human construction born of fear and control so to live an atheist life without the crushing weight of original sin and all the other guilts and taboos imposed by the organised religions of the world is to embrace a life of pursuing psychological and physical happiness in all it's various forms with direct reference to our inate (not God given) sense of right and wrong.- John Randall