In response to the article entitled “Can’t we all just get along?”, I find it hard to believe that readers are supposed to take this seriously.

Naming three people the author considers being atheists and spouting off statistics tallying death counts doesn’t convey anything, except that these dictators massacred a plethora of innocent people. The author states that these mongrels suppressed religion to control people, and such may certainly be the case.

Anyone who has considered various mass movements and religious cults will know that these entities deny knowledge and dissent. But to claim that messages freely expressing a counter-current idea to blind acceptance express hatred, and then equate these messengers with three of the world’s most notorious dictators, seems farcical.

Anyone could easily, and without thought, list notorious people, but such arguments are implausible solely for the reason that the author is selecting such an infinitesimal proportion of the atheist populace. This is the worn-out argument against atheists: they are haters and whiners.

If one considers alternative statistics, say, the fact that a vast majority scientists are or have become atheistic/antitheistic, it stands to reason that there must be a certain level of intellect amongst them, that they have rationally thought out these viewpoints and have employed the scientific method to weigh all of the evidence, or lack thereof.

I find it amazing that these believers, who consider things to be a direct result of a sky-fairy, actually consume science’s medicines and consult doctoral advice — both products of the evolution of science — and still claim that they want to reach the pearly gates as soon as possible, and leave this world behind.

They use science, and then promptly discredit science when the agenda or explanation doesn’t fit their beliefs. Or, they stretch out an already-thin argument by claiming that some superior being created scientists and gave them the ability to assist in said superior being’s work.

Like the demons, these scientists have just gone astray. Without showing empirical evidence — and not just claiming everything should be accepted on blind faith — authors who write prose such as “Can’t we all just get along?” cannot expect a rational mind to take it seriously.

This holds especially true when considering a recent NPR poll that expressed who holds the most knowledge on the subject of religion. Did you guess correctly? Atheists.