American Atheists create Super Bowl billboard ad at the Meadowlands

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38. No doubt about it, religion gets many passes.

That religious fanatics don't know when to shut up doesn't give everyone else just cause to act like a bunch of sophomoric pricks.

Your argument is reductionist and historically ignorant. At one point in time, both astrology and theism were instrumental in scientific institutions. And, despite their incorrectness now, (although even that is an oversimplification as astrology is still a remarkably accurate pseudo-science), they provided for the furthering of scientific thought and reason.

It is actually the case that some of the most important eras of scientific reason in human history occurred in deeply religious societies and institutions. Not by accident, either. It was popular belief that to be a religious individual demanded endeavoring into science and mathematics; such things were downright Godly.