Truth does not demand belief. Scientists do not join hands every Sunday, singing, 'Yes, gravity is real! I will have faith!'

I am an atheist because there is no evidence for the existence of God. That should be all that needs to be said about it: no evidence, no belief.

In any open question, we should argue from what we do know to what we do not know. We do know that fervent legends and stubborn myths arise easily and naturally. We do not know that dead people rise from the grave.

How happy can you be when you think every action and thought is being monitored by a judgmental ghost ?

You believe in a book that has sticks turning into snakes, and you say we are the ones that need help?

It is a fact of history and of current events that human beings exaggerate, misinterpret, or wrongly remember events. They have also fabricated pious fraud. Most believers in a religion understand this when examining the claims of other religions.

Insanity is believing your hallucinations are real. Religion is believing that other peoples' hallucinations are real.