""Atheists HAVE tried to see the reasoning ..and seen the problems with accepting one book and eons of preachers telling them what to do.""

And when you add to that the fact that even those who DO see a need for a Deity are at each others throats on the subject of "Our God is the only TRUE GOD", it all gets somewhat silly.

If there were substance and sense to the thinking of the US Christian Right, the Fundamentalist Muslims and the Orthodox Jews, surely they would be forced to conclude that God, Allah and Jehovah MUST be one and the same.

So why are they so bitterly opposed on religious grounds?

One for you to consider Pete?

Don T.