Ohohoho why did I think that would work. I guess I'm just stupid!
All idealists regardless of their ideology refuse knowledge, even if their ideology is the pursuit of knowledge!
But let me teach you a little something about hating people efficiently - when you fight your enemy, go for their weakness. You cannot know their weakness without knowledge. Even if you hate it, if you hate religion as much as you say you do, you must educate yourself on why it is such blasphemy to believe in such an ideology, not just wail against their ignorance with your own ignorance.
Of course, I might have been wrong to assume that you actually hated religion. Now, I am just speaking from record, but whenever someone speaks out against anything with such fervor, then they must hate it. And I wanted to help along your cause by informing you on how to hate more efficiently, and gain the acceptance of the on-the-fencers like myself. And as it is, you have just catapulted me back to the other side with your rhetoric (if you could even call it that). So I gave you a chance to redeem yourself. Of course, it is wrong to assume. So in this case, I must be wrong.
Would you blast a brick wall down with your fists? No; you use a wrecking ball, a hammer, or a stick of dynamite. In the same way, you must attack the ignorant with the flaws in their knowledge, not through hate.
No. I never "rejected" religion growing up, I just didn't grow up in a religious household.
By doing this, you have rejected religion. It does not matter where you grew up - you saw religion, and you said no. That is rejection.
Now I've reached an age where I can think logically and factually.
You are well on your way to disproving that. I can only hope that you do not do that.
Of course, hope is faith in the humanity of something, and all faith is bad, as you have said. So I can only say that you already have disproved that you can think logically and factually. Sorry, but that is all that I can assume right now.
Something religion ignores. And science simply trumps the ideas presented in just about any religion.
That is debatable. Religion is a completely separate entity from Science - if anything, they compliment each other.
Problems arise when they are used for things they are not meant to be used for. Religion is not a substitute for logic. Science is not a substitute for faith. Religion can only be reasonably applied in faith, and Science can only be reasonably applied in logic.
Religion in logic results in the horrifying bullshit we all know and love such as Creationism. Science in faith results in the abomination of neckbeards known as /r/atheism.
I'll read it once it's backed up by facts.
And I'll be waiting on this side too.
I'm just as bad as the bible thumpers that deny science, yes. But at least my side of the argument has facts.
It's nice to know that you're self-aware. Now if you could only use that...
Now to be clear I am not debating you. I am pointing out the flaws in your thinking. I am doing you a favor. Feel free to take it. Feel free to ignore it.
Now here are some dank memes to help all of us recuperate.