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That's your solution? Shoot anyone who disagrees with you?

Good fellowship isn't a mean or petty thing. Have you experienced good fellowship for yourself?

Not mine. I'm not religious. Just look at Iraq where the Shiites and the Sunnis are slaughtering each other for centuries. I don't have a gun nor do intend getting one. I am merely appalled at the useless slaughter when people are dying of diseases and starvation for the lack of human good sense.

As am I. But you can't blame everything on religion just because you don't like it. That's wrong.

Everything? Did I imply everything? Are you satisfied that just those problems involving religious disagreements are negligible?

Not literally everything!

How many problems are simply caused by the vices of mankind
compared to
how many are caused by religious disagreement?

To assume that religion is not merely another avenue for vice and a very dangerous one indeed is to be totally blind to the events, both current and throughout history, that clearly demonstrate this.

"It is impossible to have a rational discussion with a man who prefers shooting you over being convinced by you"

-Karl Popper

Blind faith and the rejection of reason leads inevitably to violence.

Religion encourages irrationalism and blind faith, which serve to amplify the vices of mankind.

Atheism does nothing to save mankind from these ills.

It can't, because it offers nothing.

Why not? Your opposition would argue that by offering nothing it removes the problem caused by bad offers.

A bad offer is better than no offer, isn't it?

Some religions do, but are you willing to claim that Christianity does? Truly though, anything can be used as an excuse, but it is when people seek to justify what they want to do rather than do what they know they should that people have used the Bible to justify what they desire.

The idea that "any interpretation is valid" leads to a lot of crap...

If you think Christianity is totally innocent you simply have not been paying attention.

I've been paying attention. I have been a Christian my whole life, you ass. And never have I suggested that Christianity was totally innocent.

Temper, temper! Read your own post carefully and understand its implications. Peace be with you.