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1.) Christians are not the true conservatives. We Ayn Randian types are the true conservatives. Just look at the Catholic church and their endless support of socialism. Christians only ride along for the social issues, and even then it depends on which social issues they give priority.

2.) Anyone with an ounce of intellectual honesty can see that in order to maintain a religious point of view, you have to start at the end of a thought and work backward. You start with "There is an All-Powerful God" and then go through this bizarre and complex flow chart to try and reconcile the random occurances of this world.

Tsunami kills 1,000 - God's will, yes or no? Well let's see... what religion were they?
Man dies of illness - God's will, yes or no? Well, which Old Testament mandates did he violate, sex or diet? Is dying of heart failure God's punishment for eating pork? Yes, if you're Jewish or Muslim, no if you're Christian... unless he was also a jerk. Then yes. But if he was "nice," no, it's just one of those unfortunate things. God let it happen. Or he didn't, you mustn't blame Him (depends on the denomination.)

Most people just give God their own personality. If you ask them whether some tragedy was God's will, they do a quick internal check: What makes sense to ME? If it makes sense to ME it's probably right because God is very much like ME.

Man created God in his own image.

Ayn Rand. So much promise and so much intelligence, devolved into a serial adultress harridan who cuckholded her weak husband. Despite that, I've enjoyed her less bloated and pretentious works, such as Anthem and We The Living. She lived under the thumb of godless communism, she knew the utter stupidity and venality and banality of the evil it represented, firsthand. Pity she didn't lose the godlessness along with the communism, as the stupidity of the one cannot exist without the stupidity of the other.

Her philosophy, objectivism, is a teenage boy's fantasy of a run-on soapbox manifesto filled with heroic platitudes. Once you get past her stilted and pretentious writing style whenever she's winging off on these pompous bloviations that we're somehow supposed to find inspiring, you arrive at the simple fact that she hated government force and loved private property and the freedom to think and to do as she pleased with as little interference as possible. So much flapdoodle to say something so simple, my goodness one might conclude that the woman was just a tad self-absorbed.

>> Just look at the Catholic church and their endless support of socialism. Christians only ride along for the social issues,..

You speak of things you do not understand. Christianity is not a culmination of the personal anecdotes you’re citing.

Furthermore, the tenets of Conservatism and Christianity are not skewed as you suggest. As an atheist, how could you possibly know?

>> Man created God in his own image.

Ironically, that is your projection of the intellect of others.

The existence of all things is not bound to the limits of the atheist’s imagination.

It might help you to understand Christianity is not a religion.