Why indeed? I don't. You don't either. But so what? Why worry about other people who do...if it makes them feel happy and they aren't hurting anyone? Surely it's their business, isn't it? Who is hurting you, Mrzzy? Or who did? And when? And why this continual reactiveness against other people's spiritual beliefs on your part? What business is it of yours what they believe or do not believe? Is it their problem or is it yours that you react to their belief?

Well yes, all this is fine, except for one teensy detail. Believers, or at least their organisations, do sort of insist on passing it on. To their kids, at home, in schools and at church. Nobody, but nobody, is going to complain about someone else's private God notion, as long as that is what it is - private. Of course, that will never happen. Organised religion knows that it can't afford to wait until children are mature, thinking adults before forcing the message on them. It has to indulge in this immoral game of giving myths-as-truth to children in order to survive at all. And yes, I know there is a difference between the ordinary believer-in-the-street and big religion. But the former, en masse, connive in the latter (with a few honourable exceptions) like mad. Atheists are not interested in attacking people's individual, private convictions (though, of course, they're fair game if they stick their heads above the parapet on discussion threads), but they do see the tremendous damage that religion can do and has done. That's definitely worth a bit of a barney I reckon.