/sci/ - Science & Math

I had never been to this board and found this thread appalling. What is this, /12yo/? Are you guys seriously arguing with religious morons on Internet? Oh, well I'll state my opinion anyway. My reasoning is actually quite simple and consists of two steps:

> we have this tool for understanding our world called science
> science fucking works, your religion doesn't

As for the original topic of the thread. My family was never very religious but still Catholic. I was a Catholic myself but never really bought the whole religion thing. I remember asking my teacher why the school books said one thing about the origins of our world and the Bible said another thing and she said "it's the same thing but told in a different way". Bullshit.

I still remember the moment I decided to distance myself from religion altogether. I was watching a documentary on some aboriginal people and their gods and thought to myself "why do these people still believe in those gods? haven't anyone told them about the Bible?" and then it hit me. An hypothetical third person watching me could say the same thing about me and the god of the Bible. Then I understood just because you've held a belief your entire life doesn't make it true.