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Splum: Science changes all the time because new evidence is brought forth, new testing techniques are developed, new discoveries are found, etc.
Science evolves. Religion changes very little, is not dependant on evidence, is impossible to test, and relies on its followers to be just that...followers, people who believe in a story that has no evidence. Judaism is about the only mainstream religion I can think of that's made any major changes for the better over the centuries. Most people in the US believe in God because it's what's fashionable to do, and it's what has been drilled into the heads of all US citizens from birth. When this viewpoint if forced upon you from an early age, then it becomes the truth for you. When you look at most mainstream religions (and this is especially true for Christianity, Judaism, and Islam) from a logical perspective, religion begins to fall apart. The best question you can ask a Christian, for example, is this: "Can God make a rock so big that he cannot move it?".
Another point about US Christians is this...we, the people of the USA, are about the most arrogant, egocentric motherfuckers on the face of the planet. We are so egotistical that we believe that we will live forever. Religion fuels this egocentricity; concepts of an afterlife that will allow us to live forever after we leave this world in a wonderful world of peace and happiness with an almighty loving God. Shit, even as a kid I disputed the teachings of Christianity, and when I became an adult, I outright dismissed it because it's so full of holes (holy? hehe) that it simply cannot be trusted. And you also have the people who pick and choose what they want from the Bible and ignore the rest. You really think you're a Christian? Then cut off your arm if you ever steal something, poke out your own eye if you look at someone else's wife, and throw the babies of your enemies against rocks. Stone your own children to death in the town square. Why? Because the Bible says so. Do we really want to be teaching this stuff in public school? Oh wait...they get to conveniently skip this stuff.
I could go on for hours and hours but I'll spare you all the misery. And what I've said isn't hate, it's disdain for the hypocrisy of modern "Christians" who aren't even remotely Christ-like (Christian = Christ-like, and I've yet to see one single person being Christ-like).
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