Lazs, I don't get angry with the thought of a God, I actually have not made up my mind about it yet. I tend to lean towards there being "something"out their that knows more than I do about what all this "universe" is about. I do however get frustrated with the intentions of most religous people. The blatant holier than thou attitudes that is common amoung the religions. The fighting and attempts to dominate all others by changing the laws to fit their religion. The countless wars over religious differences.
I'll give you an example of something that infuriated me recently. I have a 6 yo and a 10 yo that I have full custody of and the ex took me back to court to try and get custody back. Although for 10 years me and the ex believed the same about religion, we would go to church on occasions and talk about how we both agreed how the children should be raised to have options to make up their own mind without our shoving our beliefs down their throats. We never believed every word of the bible should be taken literally. Then, on the court day, she claims that I am an atheist and that she has been a member of the local baptist church now for 3 months. her lawyer tore into me about what I tell the children about the bible. I explained that I thought I would leave it open for them to decide when the time comes. He comes back with the question, "So you tell them that the bible isn't true?" Now, you must understand this is a court in New Albany, Mississippi, and the judge is the deacon of the largest church in corinth, Mississippi. He looks at me with this look, hard to explain other than a look of "sin". What infuriates me about this, is the hypocracy involved not only in my situation, but many christians who do this to other people. Her lawyer was a friend of mine in college, and I walked away from countless conversations he started with us back in the day about "the bad word for black people", "spics", and "chinks" and he's dragging me through the mud over how I raise my children? My ex is a compulsive liar, a thief, and a drug addict(crystal meth her drug of choice after hydrocodene), and she can go to church for 3 months and get brownie points on her parenting because the judge is a christian? What is wrong with this picture?
Overall, I believe that one's faith is a private matter between oneself and God. It should not be brought into government, schools, courts, or any other public power. Faith in knowing the origins of the universe is unprovable, just as the scientific theories of the origins of the universe are unprovable(we simply cannot go back in time and observe what really happened), with one big difference.......religions claim to already "know" the truth based on faith, and science is an objective method to actually find the real "truth" based on facts.
I will agree that with all studies, theories should be subjected to the highest scrutiny before being accepted as a truth, and in the case of evolution, it has passed those criteria.
