Today we can accept people and have more empathy to our fellow man than ever was the case in the dark ages my friend. Just be thankful that you were born in this era, and not in the time of church rule.

You can be as "racist" as you like in your speech, or as "homophobic" as you like. But that doesn't mean I might condemn things you say. That's just my exercise of free speech as well. Saying they can't call you homophobic or racist is appealing to your right to free speech, but insisting others can't appeal to theirs.

So far as I know, the U.S. has never had a "Blasphemy Law". Here you can say whatever you want about Christianity…But you better not utter a single negative word about any other groups…..You call it "Progressive"? I call it self righteous hypocrisy.

If you're going to TED like the other replier suggest also take a look at Richard Dawkins' talk http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/richard_dawkins...

Scientists and non-believers are generally interested in finding supporting evidence (because it would be pretty cool if humans could learn to walk on water) to all these various claims, but what we know of general physics today simply contradicts mostly everything the BIble has so far claimed. Furthermore, the more we discover the more we realize that many of those claims simply don't hold water to modern discoveries of how this universe functions, such as the earth rather rotating around the sun than than the opposite.

And then, if we look at other religions, we have the problem with which religious claim is most right? Maybe the earth was spat out from Gaia's divine womb, or that there are evil spirits out there to get us, that are unrelated to the Judaistic religions.

Once you start to study all various forms of faith that have been practiced and are practiced over the world, you realize that the only thing they utterly got in common is the need to be more true than any other form of practice. For the Maya indian tribe Q'eqchi', mountain spirits are true, just like Jesus Christ (they believe both in mountain spirits and practice Catholic Christianity), for the Luo people living in Kenya near Lake Victoria, bitter money and ancestors are true, for the Songhay living near West Niger, spirits are true along with Allah (they believe both in good and evil spirits, sorcery and practice Islam).

It may not make any sense to you, but I, who study these people, realize that there is no ultimately right or wrong when it comes to religious practice, and I think that even more so it is important for everyone to gain an acceptance that other religious practices are not wrong just because your holy scripture may might that claim (or because of your strong faith).

So when it comes to being right or wrong, the better stance would be to say that I may accept that my religion may not be the right religion, but it is right to me, which is quite a major difference from what is usually expressed by Christians and otherwise.