well when you really think about it 'god' is a contradiction.
choices and decisions are the result of human limitations; obstacles to overcome.
what kind of obstacles does an omnipotent being have?
see the one thing a 'god' could never do is: everything.
something that is all powerful and all knowing does not know challenges, therefore it has no needs
or wants, and really nothing to do other then exist. it does not make decisions like we in our ignorance and limitations
need to do.
anyways
I think this is the main problem - science isn't a belief system. It is not something you have a preference for. You can't cherry-pick scientific facts based on whether you like them or not. This concept seems lost on many people. If you teach them science as an alternative to religion, and then tell them they will burn in hell for "believing" in it, guess what do they pick.
actually i have to wonder if any of that is actually their opinion, or if they even have one of their own.
seems to me that all they are doing is scrambling to get out the right combination of words that is
most likely to make the highest number of people like them.
i don't think they ever bothered to make a choice of their own, they just say whatever they think people want to hear.
point being: we are not looking at stupid people so much (though allot) as we are looking at a stupid culture.
and u cannot spell 'culture' without 'cult'...