[quote=Jannah]
I'll respond here since it's the proper thread. Well I don't ignore the vile parts of religion, I just recognize that not everybody chooses to act on them. There are religious people who are capable of being decent, even if it does take massive cherry-picking to get there. I'd rather have decent half-assed followers than a bunch of Bible literalist fundies.
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We're in agreement here.
I'd like to re-post a clarification I made in the last thread...

[quote=Magic Magnum]Now to clarify, often times when this debate happens people confused my strong disliking of Religion for a strong disliking for religious people.
I do not dislike people who are Religious, my issue is not with them. But with the foundation of the Religion itself, the fact something that has no evidence to support not only causes so many people to regard it as fact, but has been known as either the cause, or the tool used for many if not all of the most barbaric acts in human history.[/quote]