If you cannot disprove the existence of God, or prove the existence of God

[AtheistCrusader]

181. Because their faith doesn't stay with them.

They seek to use it as a means to force or control my behavior.

I'd care a lot less if they didn't do that.
For instance, I have had occasion to authorize the destruction of 7 fertilized multi-celled blastocysts as part of an IVF cycle. There is an enormous bloc of Christians in this country that call what I did 'murder' and seek to ban it with force of law. And they've nearly done so.

That effort to ban is predicated on their faith, which tells them those fertilized ovums are people, with metaphysical soul thingies, and etc.

I'm mostly seeking to protect myself here. If believers just kept their stuff to themselves, for instance, by admonishing people who have electively become members of their faith not to do such things, and leave me alone, that would be another matter. If people could just do that, we'd have no disagreement. But they seek to control *me*. To extend their morality to *me*.

That's a problem. A problem I seek to eliminate.

You don't see me railing about UU's or Pantheists or Pagans in here, do you? Not because they are numerically inferior, but rather, because they don't assert control over my behavior. I don't believe in their faith, just as hard as I don't believe in the catholic abstraction of God, yet, you don't see me flipping over their tables and getting in arguments with them, do you? There is a reason for that.