Dear Former Atheists, We Are Not The Same:

[Bretton Garcia]

62. Science and technology definitely are fantastically useful

Religions on the other hand? In their own spiritual sphere? Are hugely vain; they claim to be "perfect" and "holy." But that is the spirit of ... Vanity.

Specific example? As others note, you yourself or believers in general, use the notion that things asserted with "faith," need no defense or explanation or proof. But this, we note, again caters to Pride. Since believers arrogantly assert they don't have to prove the things that claim God - and yourselves - claim. Since thanks to to rules of "faith," your beliefs are above criticism. Beyond - "above" - proof. Or disproof.

So? If we evaluate faith-based, spiritual religion, even in its own separate sphere or "magisterium," we find that it fails, even there. Even by its own, say "spiritual" standards. Even the vaunted spirit of "faith," is a false spirit. It is actually the spirit of arrogance, given a new name; a new alias or disguise.