Simply being ignorant and atheist is not remarkable.

You don't even say anything about these people or their religion in your "arguments", you don't seem to even have a point you're making other than that you are atheist, ignorant, and anyone who isn't is mentally ill.

What is the "actual issue" that you have?

I think the trick is to enjoy life, regardless of anything else, accept that death is inevitable but wow, what an amazing ride we get; up to 100+ years, out of billions, and at a billion to one chance.

We need to drop religion, it's bollocks. I want to help good people and animals and I don't believe in anything that could even slightly related to anything spiritual, and I certainly don't believe fictional books I read! I try to be nice to good people and animals, because it feels good. I don't need to be rewarded for being kind with eternity or virgins when I die, nor do I need to tell anyone else that the lifestyle choices they make in life will affect them after they die....

...because I firmly believe that when you're dead, you're dead, but that shouldn't be a depressing thought!!! The atoms that you had such beautiful and elegant control over for your conscious years simply become part of the universe again, and who knows, maybe one day another consciousness will animate them....

Why does anyone need anything more than this life, and why do they need to absolve every unanswerable question or mistake or unfortunate act or seemingly miraculous event to a deity?

As an atheist, I think I'm the lucky one. I'm the one who enjoys this life, the ONLY life, for what it is. You lot waiting for eternity in the clouds are wasting your precious time, the only REAL time you have.

I hate religion, rant over.

Okay, I get it now. You are one of those liberals who "defend people's right to believe what they want". You have posted several things in this thread that are way off base, and several of them directly insulting. So fuck off.

Well, at least you get it.

You're just trolling anyway, and I know I shouldn't feed, but it was too tempting.

I don't know anything.

I'm writing a book about it, though.

I think that if you want to tell men how to treat their women then you should have to provide for and take care of those women. What people these days fail to comprehend is that humans struggle to survive on their own. We need to cooperate in order to survive, and "gender roles" was one way of allowing us to cooperate in a way that was mutually beneficial.

Living relatively luxurious lives in the West we begin to believe in a utopia where food magically appears in supermarkets, gasoline flows out of the ground as if it were water, and ideas magically journey around the globe. You disconnect from the reality that people have to work hard every day to make all of that possible. You just don't see it happening.

To say that all men and women do an equal share of work is laughable. To say that anybody is entitled to the fruits of another man or woman's labor is also laughable. It used to be that we'd come to an agreement. These days Feminism has largely destroyed that idea and corrupt governments forcibly distribute resources to make it transparent to the population.

Frankly I think the present state of women in the West is worse than it is in much of the East. Western women rank their happiness lower than their mothers and grandmothers did. Who is to say that we're actually doing any better than the East?

It's very easy to take the high ground and preach about freedom and fair treatment, but it isn't actually worth fuck all if you don't explain how to achieve that without infringing on the rights and freedoms of others.