[Little Horn]

To me, the point of life is to live. I don't think the point of life is to stay on your knees. Just because there is no God or afterlife (the way I see it) does not mean that life is futile.

I don't blame anything that I've been through on anyone. I don't hold anyone accountable for the things that I've seen and been through. I understand that this is all a very real part of humanity. People will always set out to destroy each other. It's programmed in our genetic code.

Perhaps I came off too strong with everything that I saw in Iraq. I was trying to make a point I suppose and I think that it may have backfired. I should have known it would all come down to "God's will". Hindsight is always 20/20.

Being an Atheist at heart I understand that we as human beings are responsible for the horrific things that we inflict upon each other. Not God. When I ask these questions they are more or less rhetorical. I know the answer, I'm simply trying to incite people to think outside of their respective religious boxes.

At the same time, I'm trying to understand the attraction that people have to God. I've said it before that even if he were real I would never bow down a worship him. I can't idolize a being that is as vindictive and malevolent as the God that is outline in the Holy Bible, a being, who created me with desires and emotions that are "sinful" after the fact. I find it intriguing how anyone could willingly and seemingly, blindly follow a being of this nature.

I understand what you're saying and I do agree with you to a point. But I don't know that I've ever agreed 100% with anyone about anything in my life.