Hope

What then, shall we think about hope? Since this is not a tangible item, what good does it do for us? If one has hope, one must go on. If one does not have hope, one will not go on. How has the concept and idea of hope, perpetuated human kind?

Why is it that atheistic regimes are not around today, and if they are, are not fairing well against representative democracy? Why do small atheistic regimes spring up in history and are then quickly stamped out by the surrounding 'goodness' in our societies? Don't the people that stop these regimes, the so called religious nuts, offer hope and aid to stop this suffering? Don't the secular societies stand by and watch(to each their own, your tears are like water)? If these secular societies don't help, what good are they doing for human kind? If hope is offered and the killing stops, haven't we progressed as humans? Haven't we been able to allow evolution and mother nature to run its course in this sense? Why aren't barbaric principles, best man for himself, and other primitive ideas around today? Does the tribe that does not believe in God and eat each flourish and spread their ideas around the world? These tribes have not flourished and rather, religion has snuffed these tribes out. If our species still exists today, then why is religion considered so damaging to the human condition and the 'evolution' of our kind? Can it not be said that religion has actually contributed to the advancement of mankind?

Hope and goodness perpetuates mankind. Without these ideas, we would be extinct.

How then can we keep our values, but dispel God? Simply put, and by Nietzsche for that matter, we cannot.

On a separate note, Christopher Hitchens, famous anti-theist(or however else you want to dress your beliefs Mr. Hitchens: atheists dress their beliefs like a Christmas tree, just like theists do with their various denominations), is an asshole. I would not let him into my tribe/home/community/group and I hope the grace of God falls upon him, because I will not give it to him. I know that I'm not preaching forgiveness as I normally try to do, but rather, from a point stating that if he is an asshole to everyone, his kind will be sussed out by other humans - it's been proven by history once, and it will be proven again. To the dismay of the science/darwinian-lusting atheists(and I say lust because I love science, but I don't lust after it), evolution will stamp out these people, whether or not they want to believe evolution is a product of a greater Good, or dare I say, God. So in turn, these so called idiotic religious nuts are some how programmed to perpetuate their kind, whether they know it or not.

Atheism is like a fish out of water, gasping for air, and not believing the water he would be placed back into would save him anyways.