The Pledge of Allegiance

[Weltall]

Well, you have your perceptions on religion, and they do have basis in fact, but not everyone uses their faith as a crutch, you know. Regardless of what you think of God, and the Bible (and I doubt parts of the bible myself), but one of the lasting effects of the bible is the teachings of God and Christ, not just blind faith in things you can't comprehend, but simple morals and teachings, that should affect everyone regardless of belief. Six of the Ten Commandments you revile have nothing to do with religion at all. They are basic morals. Thou shalt not kill, steal, bear false witness, covet thy neighbor's wife, commit adultery, and honor thy mother and father. Simple commands that apply to everyone. Many of Christ's teachings apply the same way. "Let he who has never sinned cast the first stone"? What do you people find so dangerous about these things?

As for my comments on all you see being simple chance, you seem to have missed the point

I do believe that certain events are a matter of coincidence, but for humanity to be where it is right now, going all the way back to the Creation, or Big Bang or whatever, there are far, far too many coincidences for me to believe that it's just random chance we are where we are. The laws of probability just do not allow for this many coincidences. There were most likely billions upon billions of variables involved in this process, and slight variations would have likely thrown it all off. I'm sorry, I just cannot accept that so many billions of long-shot coincidences just happened from the beginning to myself being here typing this. I allow that by the laws of probability that nothing is impossible but seriously, the chance of a random explosion eventually leading up to a single world in all that we've seen capable of supporting life, and that life evolving into just the perfect set of circumstances for one single species to become more advanced than all others, and out of all those advanced humans only a part of them advanced beyond the stone age, and that a smaller group still eventually became the most advanced nation in history in all aspects. The chances of this have to be one in trillions, I'm sure. And yet, here we are.

Sorry. Again, that's just too much for just simple chance. That there is a subtle design behind this is the only answer that makes sense to me.