Its america, its full of thick prats anyways

I'm religious and don't force it on anyone and my beliefs don't require people to bend backwards to accommodate me. No, I'm not stupid and yes I know there's no proof of God's existence but I just have an intrinsic feeling that there is a God, I feel there is a higher power. Even though I'm religious I realise that religion in general is man made and is used as a means of controlling the population.
Trying to say Atheists = Dumb or Religious people = Dumb just doesn't work, people don't fit neatly into stereotypes.

No it isn't, those idiots were too ignorant to know the difference between faith and blind obedience to begin with to ever really have been considered "religious."

No statement of fact should EVER break someone from their faith, only a choice can do that, and that is left up to each person to decide for themselves. Not dependent on whether a god is "real," or the authorship of religious texts, it's in you and nowhere else.

I believe in him, though I do sway away because of all the bad but then I remember all the good and know its real, I mean like seriously someone must have created us to be the dominant animal in this world. Far too long I've let the Internet decide for me but hey as long as I believe that is all that counts. He's never let me down, he's taken the bad people far from my life, everytime I talk to him, he answers. Sometimes it's not the answer you seek but need.

well am religious and i am proud of it .
and of course i want my loved ones to be like me i dont care about you people but i know one thing is for sure actually two things .
1 - there is a holy book which predicted this and everything we are doing right now that book is 1400 years old .
2 - hell fire needs people to survive so i hope the number of disbelievers is enough to fill it up XD i know it can take up to infinity but i guess you get the point .

Religion may be cause for violence, however thats not to say religion is the only cause. Plenty of athiests or psychopaths who arent religious go on a murderous rampage too, some often BECAUSE they hate religion so much (Andeers Brehvik)

As "educated" as some of you are, and so...open-minded, I find it hard to believe that some of you athiests really think that religion is the cause of wars. Men are the cause of wars, ignorance, hate, greed, etc. The wealthy and powerful just used religion as an excuse to go to war, much like our own government parades the idea of patriotism and freedom in order to invade countries for oil.

Religion to many people is not something that gets in the way but something to have faith in, comfort us in our darkest hours and give us hope that there is something beyond this physical life we live in.I am not sure why people are always pretending it is the major cause of humanities strife when there are many non religious things in this life that are screwing us just as bad as people seem to think religion does. We who practice religion admit that we have people that take it way too far but that doesn't give people the excuse to condemn everyone else who truly believes in it and to want it gone for your own convenience.

Also I would like to point out to the atheists who are so in a hurry to believe that a higher power is not at work in the shaping of the universe that it would mean that humanity and the universe is nothing more then an accident.That we just happened to exist by accident.I don't know about you but thinking that we were just one step from never existing at all if conditions weren't exactly right for us is not a wondrous thought at all.It would also mean the complexity of everything around us and us ourselves are an accident too.Are you saying that the universe is nothing more then a lucky roll of the dice?