Atheism, Ethics and "God"

As an atheist, I am amazed that in this day and age we are still having this ridiculous argument about weather or not there is a god. In a time when science is so advanced and we know as much as we do about how things work, there is no reason to even consider if there is even a god.

I can understand 3500 years ago, a god was needed, to explain the everyday things they didn't know the mechanics of. Lightning as an example, they saw the damage it caused in strikes, and probably when it hit people: "may God strike me dead, cuz he can I've seen it, a big blue spark from the clouds"

I know why this is still an issue. It's because people are to afraid to take responsibility for their own lives. i mean i can understand why, but to me it's better to be responsible to yourself than to some magic man in the sky.


Another more ridiculous argument is that, with out god, there is no reason to have ethics, or a sense of morality. I can't emagine taking ethical or moral direction from a jealous, sadistic, vain, and just plain nasty being such as this god!

I think people need to take of the rose couloured glasses and really look at this false value system of their's and come to reality. without this insane system, imagine the progress we as a species can accomplish.