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I have to say that hearing religious people use the word "values" irritates me to no end. Do they think that they want something different from the rest of us? Do they think that our lack of belief in an invisible creature who defies all logic makes us incapable of understanding ethics, or living ethical lives? Because if I were to compare the percentages of ethical/non-ethical atheists that I know vs. the ethical/non-ethical religious folks that I know, well.....the atheists win in a fucking landslide. The reason for this is obvious. The more you tell someone that they shouldn't do something, the more they want to do it (see me posting in Splat's threads). And since religion tells us that damn near everything that is not intended as praise to your lord is wasteful and wrong, it blurs the lines of wrong and right.

In conclusion: We all want the same things. Life, love, and peace. The sooner that the religious realize that this is all that the non-religious want, the happier we will all be. I mean, seriously. We are not trying to take your traditions from you (which by the way, is what you mean by values). We aren't going to eat your children, or convert them to Satan. Just let us live our lives.