“Nothing turns me off from religion more than the behavior of Christians in threads about Atheism.”
Bump to that. A Christ whose most basic commandments they so obviously ignore cannot have possibly been much of an influence, based on the statements of so many of them here.
Its the constant attacks by the God-haters, calling us stupid and so forth, despite the overwhelming evidence for design in nature (and the complete scientific failure of darwinism and the copernican principle) that provoke this backlash. You do know its perfectly OK to smear feces on statues of Jesus, and other Christian symbols, but how dare you say anything negative toward a transvestite marching in the gay pride parade with its pants down.