Abandon Atheism

Originally posted by serigado
Good post, I subscribe your opinion.
But there's one point.
God is not incoherent with the real world. (at least the abstract God). So, it remains the argument
"If I have no evidence, I'll stick with the simplest explanation -> No God"

But to religious guys there's evidence: The Bible, the feelings they have, the perplexity towards the complexity and ...[text shortened]... u name it. Of course all this evidence can be disputed, and that's where opinions diverge.

:'(:'(:'(

These are not tears of pain, rather, they are tears of joy. You do not know how long I have longed to hear an atheist say that we have differing "opinions" instead of being dragged through the mud by having them say I am stupid and/or delusional. You see, one need not disrespect anothers view point to thereby lower their view point in order to elevate their own view, or at least, that is the message I think you are trying to send here.

Originally posted by agryson
I would call myself a liberal. It is something, it describes a whole range of my views at once. there is an identity one can put with being called a liberal. There is no identity you can put with a word like atheist.

Yes, but if you were running for political office using either term atheist or liberal would be suicidal. Why do you think this is?

Originally posted by whodey
Yes, but if you were running for political office using either term atheist or liberal would be suicidal. Why do you think this is?

Both would probably help where I'm from. As for the US, I'd imagine because the US is quite a right wing country by comparison to many others. Hence there is still a huge stigma attached to being a politician who is liberal (seen as weakness for some reason) atheist (if he doesn't believe in God he's obviously into eating babies instead of kissing them).
Other examples include homosexuality, being anti death penalty or anti guns etc. It's simply a reflection of the political landscape of America, but there's nothing inherently wrong with being either liberal or atheistic.