When you get right down to it, "Atheist" is a stupid word.

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25. Well, it's sorta the point

You can judge your contemporaries by your own knowledge, or you can let history judge them by the knowledge of the future. There is probably more knowledge that has been proven wrong than right. This is especially true if one considers the example of Newton and the reality that he was "wrong" because he and his contemporaries assumed mass was constant. It wasn't, and if you presume that, his work is more modern than he knew. Darwin questioned his own hypothesis based upon flawed thermodynamics. I could go opn but...

But that being said, one must understand the immense challenge of those of faith. It is almost the unprovable condition despite the attempts to the contrary. Alternately, the contrary is unprovable as well. You can't unprove a diety, especially the Christian/Jewish/Muslim kind because the very foundation of the concept is that it is unknowable without faith of the unknowable. As soon as it becomes knowable it is no longer an issue of faith and therefor "knowable".

The real conflict among faiths and those of no faith is all the same. In the end, are our actions of "free will" or are they pre-ordained. And even those of faith cannot agree. But regardless, the question is:;, (I'm not sure of the correct punctuation) What is the moral thing to do? Not just on ones own behavior, but in the earthly judgement of others?