I could say "Enough with this 'God is a bad idea' garbage," but I somehow think the vehement Dawkins-philiacs (I won't call them atheists, in order to preserve the dignity and good name of atheists everywhere who have not succumbed to this slop) won't be hushed by a "now, now, that's enough of that." Given the time, energy, and interest, I could engage these crusaders easily enough - most of their arguments have little or not relation to historical fact, and most of their temperament is based entirely on emotion and opinion. However, I have absolutely no desire to engage with pseudo-intellectual children in a playground full of broken glass.
God is not a bad idea. It's the people behind the ideas and the actions those people perform that are bad. Ideas themselves aren't even real in any relevant sense... They, themselves, can't hurt anybody.
I'll attribute to mere ignorance what people may not know about what motivates people to act - usually politics and economics. My only request is that if you actually truly believe that it's the idea of God which is the source of our world's problems, then please open a history book, and kindly stay out of my headspace.
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