Richard231, you are welcome to your religious beliefs. And don't kid yourself, your atheism is a religious belief. It's not scientific. Agnosticism is the scientific stand, even Bertrand Russell admitted that.

And stop pretending you know anything about other religions when what you're doing is creating a Straw Church to knock down. If you don't like the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, try Stalinism or Maoism. They were atheistic systems that did wonders for murdering millions of people.

I cherish freedom in all its messiness. I don't take religion or science dogmatically. I find Richard Dawkins as much of a buffoon as I do Franklin Graham. Atheists aren't immune from being stupid, cruel, misogynistic or just plain silly. Indeed, they're often as arrogant as those who think God speaks to them.