Quote Originally Posted by geoff View Post

Judaism and Christianity go hand in hand my friend. Christianity is a continuance of Judaism. And the statements you made in this quote show that when it comes to Christianity or any Abrahamic religion, you are ignorant...not to say stupid...just have no knowledge of it. The birth of Christ was recorded more than 2000 years ago......I would dare to say that you probably do not even know why you are an atheist. Did you get wronged by a "church" or did you just decide it makes no sense to you. Believe me when I say that MANY men smarter than you and I have believed and lived their life according to the teachings of Jesus Christ. Your famed Charles Darwin was himself a believer in God.

The " Catholic Church" as I see it personally is not a true established church of God. It was taken over by the Romans who tried to kill off the teachings and believers of Jesus. You want to talk about population control, ok i can see your point when referring to this church. The crusades, witch hunts, ect....all done and approved by the " Catholic Church". It is the most corrupt organization in the world, more so than any government and they make Enron look like a kindergarten playground fight. The word "catholic" is nowhere to be found in any scriptures, they practice idolitry which is clearly forbidden in scripture ( praying to saints, mary, ect...). The Catholic and Orthodox churches are not the image of the Body of Christ. Sorry it just isn't.

The point you are trying to make with this article has failed, it takes no more than for one to test it to see its a fable. Like I said before, many intelligent men/woman have believed.
I think you should do a little bit more reading about religion and start questioning your faith some more. I used to be where you were, I was once a devout Christian. It was god or nothing, but I started questioning what others were preaching. Then science came along. Then I read the bible. Cover to cover. That's about the time I really started questioning things and looking at things with a now open mind. I know exactly why I'm an atheist. If you want to make the argument that more intelligent people believed in god, there are other intelligent scholars who were atheists.

Religion, the bible, and the god of the bible is also a fable. The test is science, and it fails miserably. They are constructs of men to cope with the things they didn't know about and were unable to discover in the bronze age. Read the bible, all the answers are there