Actually, it pisses me off to be called a militant. I don't start threads about this stuff. I'm merely a shrugger of shoulders at the nonsense of religious belief. I can't understand how intelligent people (not you, pete - don't go getting excited now) can put all the logic and rationality they employ in the rest of their lives on hold in order to believe in an entity who breaks all the rules of nature, for whom there is no evidence and who raises a million more questions than he answers, and, above all, who is utterly unnecessary. That's all. Where I get cross is when people who espouse this delusion have such faith in it that they inflict it on their children by acquiescing in their religious "education" (which is actually the complete opposite of real education in that you're telling children what to believe rather than showing them how to find things out for themselves). If you make your child go to a Catholic school you are forcing them to accept evidence-innocent myth as truth. You might be the nicest bloke on the planet, but if you do that you are definitely deluded. And not being very nice to your kid. And it's you doing that who's the bloody militant, not me.