believers vs non-believers....

believe it or not, there are folks who have no need to believe in anything other than the natural world around them. I spent my first 8 school years in a Catholic school and for the first 6 years I tried my hardest to believe what I was being taught by very sincere nuns and lay teachers... but being the person that I am, I could never just accept dogma without mentally testing it for flaws. I spent the last 2 years in that school knowing that I was at the very least an agnostic and more likely was an atheist.

I accept the fact that there those who have a very strong need for a spiritual component in their lives because I have any number of friends and others who fall in that category. I don't insult their beliefs or try to show them the errors of their ways, in fact I usually laugh and tell them that I'm a heathen if the subject comes up. But if a holy roller comes to my door with their pamphlets and BS, I show them the way out in no uncertain terms.

My alarm with the Christian right & creationism is their unrelenting campaign to destroy the teaching of science in our school systems, because I will say again that dogma is not and never can be called science. The emperor is buck naked! As a society we need to keep repeating that message and not cave into placating these ignorant fools... any more than we should have allowed the belief that blacks are somehow an inferior race to remain unchallenged all those years.

Or that the human race can keep breeding until we destroy everything else in the world with our greed.