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Science is the defense mechanism? Give me a break! The real defense mechanism is this bizarre collection of myths and superstitions you call religion. You and your fellow believers just can't accept the fact that you're really nothing more than an insignificant ape with a big brain (and worm food, eventually), so you retreat into a comforting fantasy world complete with a deity ("God"), eternal life in paradise for the believers ("Heaven"), punishment for evil ("Hell"), and an escape from death ("Faith in Jesus Christ") among other things. Yet at the end of the day you're still just an ape with an over active imagination. The whole thing would be kind of funny if it weren't so pathetic and sad.

And Pascal's Wager has been refuted over and over and over; it has got to be one of the worst arguments for belief in history.

Science is the defense mechanism? Give me a break! The real defense mechanism is this bizarre collection of myths and superstitions you call religion. You and your fellow believers just can't accept the fact that you're really nothing more than an insignificant ape with a big brain (and worm food, eventually), so you retreat into a comforting fantasy world complete with a deity ("God"), eternal life in paradise for the believers ("Heaven"), punishment for evil ("Hell"), and an escape from death ("Faith in Jesus Christ") among other things. Yet at the end of the day you're still just an ape with an over active imagination. The whole thing would be kind of funny if it weren't so pathetic and sad.

The funny thing is, for all your bluster and arrogance, it's actually the vast majority of us that thinks *you* are the deluded, silly one, relying on science to deny there might be a God.