And science oddly enough fails to answer any questions pertaining to why the universe is here: not the mechanics, but the purpose. Nor should science ever pretend it can.

Anyway, I'm kinda sick of this whole atheistic hipster crap that's been everywhere. I'm tolerant of stuff I don't believe in, but atheists love pointing out stupid religious people.

You know which governments were anti-religion and enforced atheism? The fricking Axis. Communist China. Hitler loved science: testing human limits for torture, swimming in freezing water, etc. The examples of atheistic and simultaneously abusive governments is not a pretty picture. It turns out, when you don't think there's any reason for life, you don't have any respect for it: Science is not reason enough for decency. That logically makes sense to me when I assume no greater power or morals, so I'm glad atheists aren't all like this, but seriously. I hope you find more purpose in life the ridiculing those looking for meaning.

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...It turns out, when you don't think there's any reason for life, you don't have any respect for it...

I certainly don't mean to ridicule you, but you need to think through your statements a bit more, and not generalize.

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Some Christians do believe that God and science can happily work hand in hand. I, for one, am one of those people. Let's not be bigots. I know it's the internet and people are going to bicker, so I'm wasting my time jumping into the middle of this, but come on... Let's just be nice, ok?

Also, do not dare compare real Christians to Hitler. I'm sure good, loving, kind, tolerant Muslims just LOVE being compared to terrorists. Oh wait? They don't? And they don't deserve it either? Yeah - we don't deserve it as Christians either. Don't lump us in with the ones who misrepresent us. It's brutally small-minded to do so, especially in a tech blog where this shouldn't even be brought up.

And that's all I have to say on the matter. Or should I say the anti-matter. There I tried to end on a nice note.

Who am I kidding - let the flaming begin.... /sigh

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The motive is subjective. You can object to this concept if you like, but with the amount of sects that exist that have their own explanations for the reasons behind existence, no single person, or group of people can ever convince me of any of their viewpoints of the "purpose" for existence. I could very well argue that there is no purpose, and that the purpose of your life is yours to create. This may not sit well with everyone, but it being such an uncomfortable concept won't undo it. Of course, I could be 100% wrong about everything I do or don't believe in, but for a lack of any real empirical data, I'm going to leave the "Why?" to the philosophers.

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Regarding association, I also agree. I think using examples like Hitler and his Roman Catholic upbringing doesn't sum up the whole of the Catholic following. My mother is Catholic, and I have complete faith and confidence that she is nothing like Hitler.

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