Generally speaking, I have found that theists are quick to lose control of their emotions and tend to argue emotionally while atheists tend to either stay clear of emotions all together or to use emotions to strengthen their argument.
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By Joseph L. Conn, Director of Communications of Americans United for Separation of Church and State.
Parents were upset that their children might be taught religion in science class. And civil liberties activists noted that the courts have declared “intelligent design” to be a religious concept and barred it from public school biology classes as a violation of church-state separation.
Where is the humility in being a theist? There is none. What would it mean for me to believe in god? It would mean that I know. Not just that I might happen to know about Kerouac, Thailand, liquid nitrogen, and vector calculus identities, but that I know that there is an omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent power in the universe that I can’t prove to you, but that I know because I have faith. I know because I say I know. I can feel it.
Non-believers are often more educated, more tolerant and know more about God than the pious […] Secularists make up some 15 percent of the global population, or about 1 billion people. As a group, this puts them third in size behind Christians (2.3 billion) and Muslims (1.6 billion). Churches in the US are losing up to 1 million members every year. In Europe, secularization has advanced even further.
[…] with the mapping of the human genome, it’s clear that modern humans emerged from other primates as a large population – long before the Genesis time frame of a few thousand years ago… Evolution makes it pretty clear that in nature, and in the moral experience of human beings, there never was any such paradise to be lost… To many evangelicals, this is heresy.
