I fail to understand the logic behind the thoughts of people like him. Everything they accuse people of religion of being (forcing there views on others, attacking any beliefs that differ from their own etc) they are guilty of themselves. Does anyone seriously believe that the absence of religion will end all the worlds problems? Most modern-day wars have had nothing to do with religion, separating ourselves from one another is human nature.
You remove religion and all that would be accomplished is that our other differences would become more apparent. Black/white, male/female, rich/poor, black/mixed-race, black/Hispanic, Bengali/Pakistani, Indian/Pakistani, east/west Arabic/African the list goes on. If anything, modern Christianity is the only thing that has managed to bring all these differing people into unity. Sure, there are problems with religion but the same could be said about anything. Without religion there would be no Gandhi, there would be no Martin Luther King, there would be no Mother Taressa.
In my view Christianity is the most tolerant faith out there and is truly universal but 'militant' (anti-theist) Atheists seem more than happy to only focus their criticisms and attacks on
our faith and
our God. Why don't you grow a backbone and speak out against
Islam and its
founder instead of defending a faith that you have no respect for anyway by saying "well, your kind done '
this' a few hundred years ago." people like him are cowards who feed their ego's by attacking the weak and easy targets.
Q) Would I like to punch him?
A) Yes, the only thing that would stop me is...my religion.