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Originally Posted by drifter
Religion is for the weak minded.
Weak minded people can't rely on themselves to think up answers so they believe what is thrown at them in order to stabilize their lives.
Some might use a type of religion for say, a code of conduct or something, Atheism is for the weak minded as well, since they decide they just don't want to believe in anything, they are taking the lazy way out.
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Wow, you manage to pretty much lay into both sides there
I can't comment on your attitude to religious, as I'm not a religious person, but I will have a go at answering your accusation that atheists are weak minded. I used to sit on the fence with regards to the existance of God, but I became an atheist when I realised that I was giving the idea of a God more weight than perhaps it deserved, maybe as a throwback from my childhood reverence.
Whilst it's useful to keep an open mind, sometimes you have to be practical about such matters. Sure, there could be a pink hippo floating around the Sun that our telescopes have not spotted, but is it really likely? I could keep an open mind about the hippo, but for practical purposes, I can discount it's existance; life's too short to worry about such things. Likewise, I can discount God; there's no real evidence for His existance, and many logical problems that arise from the powers He is said to possess. Thus, I take a shortcut and discount God's existance, until I am proved otherwise. I'm not quite sure how discounting possibilities one finds unlikely could be considered weak minded.