Atheism

So I'm finally getting around to this (stupidly) delicate subject. I have put a lot of thought into the whole issue, having previously been of the opinion that religion is relatively harmless and that it's the people who kill people, not religion. I have since changed my mind, and am now approaching Greta-Christina-levels of pissed-off-ness. One thing that I feel is very unfair in arguments about atheism vs religion, is that atheists are expected to know the bible inside out and upside down before making any kind of argument against it, whereas religious people are not expected to know jack about science, but they don't seem to see that as a problem. Atheists are the ones reaching out, researching and discussing why things within religion are nonsensical, whereas the faithful just sit back on their haunches and don't even try to argue up to the level of science.

Now I'll admit freely that I have never read the bible, nor do I plan to. So I am incapable of being able to pinpoint all the logical fallacies within religion, but you know what? That shouldn't matter! Because the point is that all of religion is a logical fallacy. I'm really not interested in their book, because it does not change the fact that they believe wholeheartedly in something THAT HAS NEVER BEEN PROVEN TO EXIST! The fact of the matter is that we have provable, verifiable facts in science, and they do not have the same for religion. All they have is books, written by people thousands of years ago, which as you can imagine was not a time of great enlightenment and thorough research. I mean, you look at medicine, and how that has changed so vastly in just the last 100 years, because our thinking and understanding of everything is evolving. But here are people still thinking in terms of 2000-plus years ago and refusing to let go of tradition.

I'm waiting for proof. Actual, empirical evidence of the existence of a god. Until then, you don't got nothin'.