"Thank God im an atheist!"

I've argued this on a different forum, and I'll do the same here: Most wars are not started by religion. Nor is most violence. The only two religious wars I can think of at the moment are the Crusades, and the current Jihad. What were the causes of these wars: Civil War, WWI, WWII, Vietnam? (Pardon me if I'm more familiar with wars that the US participated in.) Were any of these very deadly wars started because of religion? Did religion even play a part in any of them? And (not counting Muslims) when was the last time anybody was killed or riots started over religion? Even when religion does seem to be the cause, it is often just used as an excuse to go to war for more worldly reasons.

Oh? Religious people wouldn't be "peaceful" - like the Communists and Nazis and the Khmer Rouge, right? Like the atheist ideologues who ignited the French Revolution, which killed more people than the Inquisition, by the way -- Look it up if you don't believe it. Atheists have been responsible for more deaths than any other single group - that's what happens when you try to build a progressive, secular utopia and discover that you first need to eliminate the hundreds of thousands (or millions) of people who don't want to live in your utopia.

If you are an atheist, how are you thanking God? You don't believe in Him.

The problem with religion is that there are too many people on the planet. Religion only works if there are substantial "buffer zones" between populations with different faiths. With so many people jammed into this ever-smaller globe, conflicting belief systems are mashed together with no room to expand, and war results. ALL war is based on one group's belief that their god made them better than somebody else's. The arrogance and hubris that is the beating heart of EVERY major religion makes war inevitable. War will only end when religion is stuffed back into the limited space it should never have been allowed to escape from - home and church. Religion must be forever divorced from statecraft, or the world will not survive. The Islamists will go down first, I think the rest of the world will only put up with the extremists' nonsense for so long before we all get together and smash them like the diseased vermin they are. Unfortunately, since the 90% of Muslims who are not extremists won't get off their collective butts and do something about the evil 10%, they'll suffer, too. In the end, though, if people of all faiths don't clean up their acts, governments will have no choice but to step on religion, hard. The whole "my god's better than your god" has no place in a truly free society. Religions have proved over and over again throughout history that they cannot be trusted with temporal power. Most people have so much ego tied up in their belief system, they won't be willing to let go of the demand that THEIR GOD be the one everybody else in the country bows to. The next American Revolution will be against the Christian extremists who have distorted our politics for so long. I only hope I live long enough to fight in it! My slogan? "Keep God in Heaven - Where He Belongs!"

People create wars in God's name...but who's to say that God approves of that? Why would anyone be atheist because people take it upon themselves to fight over religion? As long as I'm not fighting over religion, I'm fine. I can only do me, after all, and I'm not going to not believe in something just because many who do are raging idiots. Heh! No one person represents an entire group.

Yes so am I. Actually our belief in God makes us good human being, I don't steal from others not because he is stronger than me but because he is also the son of the same almighty. This should be the basis of our relationship with others and this will probably be the major force in bringing peace in this World.

i am a atheist too, i totally agree with you that religion sometimes can be a terrible thing, which often manipulated by minority group leaders, not too sure it's a personally revenge or not!