"The Real Cost Of Religious Faith." Awesome.

"Why do you want to partition yourself off into some little sub-group where if people aren't in that group with you, they're bad? Why is this appealing? You want to believe that... stating our opinion on TV we deserve to be tortured forever?"

"Even if the bible were true...  that still does not put one in a position where they are worshiping out of anything but fear of a monster that is grotesque and wants to punish people...

The god that Christians believe in...  if it wants to actually achieve its goal of spreading this information to humanity - by relying on text, by relying on languages that die off, by relying on anecdotal testimony - that's not a pathway to truth.  And anything that would qualify for a god should know this.  Which means that either god doesn't exist or it doesn't care enough about those people who understand the nature of evidence to actually present it.  Now which of those possibilities do you think is accurate?

...Faith isn't a pathway to truth.  Every religion has some sort of faith.  If faith is your pathway then you can't distinguish between Christianity, Hinduism, Judaism, any of these others...  What kind of god requires faith instead of evidence?"