“...I still prefer the results of The Enlightenment to those of the Inquisition.”
Your ignorance is profound, particularly in regard to your false but typical perception of the “Inquisition” which is based more on conventional here-say than on the historical facts of what occurred during that period, and, more importantly, why.
However, please answer me this: On what basis do you make any moral decision?
Since those absolute tenets established by God are not available to you, by definition of what you believe, then on what foundation are you able to build any edifice of moral guidance? Your reasoning process is no more stable than dust in the wind.
Under your atheistic illusions, all absolutes are mere subjective rules, which one may redefine at will, since nothing of a higher supreme objective intelligence may be referred for their final authority. Under such a philosophical system, there exists no basis for right and wrong; there exists no foundation from which to support natural law... that which guarantees the liberty of men. In other words, without God, there remains no inhibition against one man doing what he may will to another, no rational reason to oppose such treatment, and no suitable defense to ensure any rights established.
The natural result of Atheism is the communist state... where all manner of barbaric practice may be justified, if such serves the needs of the state.
Your belief, propagated to its natural end, would be the cause of your own undoing.
It always amazes me that people feel they need some invisible sky daddy in order be good,to know right from wrong. I already feel what is right or wrong, I do not like hurting others, I do not harass those with different beliefs or ideas, I like to do nice things. And not because I think I have to or else.
From what I have seen and experienced, the religious are meaner than atheist/agnostics.
To bad we couldn’t just chill out and live our lives and not force our individual beliefs on others.