I have been browsing the offerings at Fundies say the darnedest things and while some of quotes are funny, and some down right scary, the theme running through so many of them seems to be fear of the unknown. Why is it that the religious mind seems to be obsessed with being able to answer all the questions? What is so wrong with 'We don't know the answer'?
The irony is that one of the most common complaints levelled at atheists is that they remove the wonder and mystery in the world, when reducing all the unknown to 'God did it' has to be the worst kind of removal of wonder that there is. Where are the questions? The curiosity?
It would be easy to rant about how the want to fill all the knowledge gaps with a god risks ending the development of technology and science, but I think that the saddest thing is when someone losses the will to ask 'Why', such a simple question and yet one that seems to cause the most problems. A lack of belief in a supreme being does not reduce the beauty of the world, it makes you realise how lucky we are to live in universe so amazing and complex.
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