Comment Re:Everything would suddenly have an alien connect (Score 1) 333
Not that you have no good reason to think of religion as just another way for humans to divide ourselves based on dogma and, more importantly, trivial social identity, with a bit of metaphysical weirdness sprinkled in, but:
Religion doesn't get enough respect. There is real value to be found in bringing the spiritual into your life. Sadly, as society has become more and more secular, our greatest minds have mostly fled religion and most of who remains are really simple tribal types. But even among the simplistic flocks of vitriolic sheep is a wide diversity of beliefs, experience, and capacity for true altruism. What I'm saying is that all Christians and all Muslims are not the same. And if you want them to more about goodness and less about judging others, the only real way to effect that change is to join them and lead by example.
Of course, you can always just keep spewing hatred over the internet. There's an activity that will always be shared by the religious and the atheistic alike.