How many failed religions would one need, before you finally understand why the whole idea is silly?

It matters not how many religions are wrong as long as at least one is right.

The Bible is true, and those who actually follow it are right.

Trying to use rational thought to appeal to the religious will never work. They believe in miracles and magic. They will take what is told to them by the holy man with a funny hat or robe and believe in it completely. They do not understand that Gods depend on geography. Whether you are a Christian or a Muslim depends on your birth place. Christians are Atheists about all other religions, Atheists just take it 1 god further.

We will just have to wait out religion. With the rise of modern science and the dissemination of information via the internet, it won't be long. This will be the demise of belief in fairy tails, the superstitious and tribal myths. We just have to hope that those religious that want to bring about the end of the world because it is "supposed to happen anyway" in their particular holy book don't ever get too much power.

Actually, those stories that are labeled myth, doesn't mean those gods aren't still worshipped. Claiming the stories are myths doesn't take away from belief in those gods. You just don't see pagans telling others they have to take those myths as Literal Absolute Fact.

And how many failed political stances will it take before people give up on politics all together? Seems rather silly to throw everything out just because a man-made system fails, doesn't it?

"Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater"

Judaism was the first monotheistic religion. It still hasn't faded away into oblivion and mythology.

I don't see your point.

The idea that other people have firmly believed and been wrong can't hurt any other belief system - the whole basis of each religion is that they are the one truth among the thousands of falsehoods. So the fact that there are thousands of falsehoods doesn't mean anything, really.

If a tree falls in woods and no one is there hear it, does it make a sound?

The fact that people do "believe" in their God and it influences their choices in life not mean God exists? Even if you do not believe and there may not be a physical being (or energy), God may only exist by the results of the belief. Non existence can not create consequence. And lets face it history is load with consequences of God.

Another person bashing religion as primitive....

How many politicians will you believe in? How many movements will you call new and original?

Here's the thing, religion exists to explain the unexplainable ( what happened before the big bang, what happens after death, how could something come out of nothing[which logically is what HAD to have happened for the universe to exist] to create the big bang, which somehow caused life).

People are looking for answers, you think you are more wise then the entirety of the human species in present and past, to say that this is ridiculous?

I only needed one religion that did not have evidence to support the claim that god exists. Once I realized they could not prove the existence of their god. I realized no religion has any support for their beliefs. Like if humanity discovered a god the evidence for it would be used to support the belief of any religion. Sense there is no evidence just makes it clear that religion is silly.

i totally agree with you

also these previous gods are almost identical to the abrahamic mythology

these theists are atheists in respect to 99% of all deities, they are experts at proving religions false

why cant they turn that same critical analytical eye on their own false belief

it is beyond belief that people in 2011 still believe in a minor desert religion from 2000 years ago, that only became popular because the romans forced the entire world to believe in it or die

those same romans that killed jesus and threw christians to the lions

silly is an understatement, it is pathetic

It is the One that stands the test of time, and makes it to the end that is true.

Matthew 24:14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nation, and then the end will come.

To your reply: Wouldn't it be total coincidence that all this easy access to information(even to the most remote parts of the world) and 2012 is around the corner. entertaining the thought.

And how many Yahoo answers will it take before atheists realise there is more to religion than the stories?

The sole purpose of repenting to some God (there or not) is not for God's benefit but yours! As for "Where do we come from", "What happens when we die" etc, these are still very valid questions!

Maybe you do rot in the ground, but I'd rather rot with a clear conscience! I'm not saying atheists can't live a perfectly moral life, but religion provides a path to a moral life to those who choose to take it. You should look at religion as a perspective on life, rather than a collection of stories!

Also: maybe God is a sea monster with 100 tentacles, doesn't make the blindest bit of difference!

This question is just one of the thousand ways whe great revolution takes place, if ever, but things don't change just because rationality seems to impose it. Mankind gives birth to rationality as well as to blindness, and there's a precise reason for both.