Day 10.

This morning I started watching a 6 episode series called The Atheist Tapes. There is one intellect, I believe they are all white males, per episode being interviewed on their religious views or lack there of. The two interviews I have watched so far, I have really enjoyed. Both men made a distinction between atheists and anti-theists and both men claimed to be anti-theists. The distinction is that atheist simply do not believe in a god of any sort while an anti-theist not only does not believe in a god, but believes that any religious belief in a god is genuinely a bad thing. I was surprised when I heard the first man say this and couldn't wait to hear his explanation on why a belief in something larger than humans are able to comprehend is a bad thing. He didn't explain. The second man gave an answer, but it just wasn't a satisfactory one. According to this man, bad things are not done solely in the name of religion, but because of it. However, the examples he gave were only examples of people doing bad things in the name of religion which only represents the fallibility of man and not so much the fallibility of God. I was disappointed in his answers. I guess I expected those men to have better, convincing arguments. The second man also said something that has been playing through my head all day long. I've even thought about saying this to the person I was watching the tapes with, but I'll just talk about it here for now. The second interviewee said he was glad that science is detrimental to religion. I can't help but to strongly disagree with him. Although I am not very knowledgeable when it comes to scientific things, I haven't heard a piece of science that disproves religion. I think scientific discoveries such as universal laws and patterns attest that there has to be something more than random in this world, in this universe. Just my thoughts for the day.