<p>"Do you think the flaming inferno of the middle east and a potential nuclear war in Iran would be the cause of the Second Coming? Etc. etc."
-Correction, that's how you judge stupidity. Not religiousity. Besides, there is a built-in bias in those questions. If you think that's what religiousity is, you're vastly generalizing. </p>
<p>-Christianity can absolutely be seen as a philosophy. Have you ever heard of being Christian? Patience, kindness, selflessness...? Those are not exclusively Christian, but they originated in the Bible. </p>
<p>-Right. Buddhism is polytheistic. So? It's still a religion. The point is, mono or poly theistic, it still offers an alternative explanation of our existence as opposed to the Big Bang Theory.</p>
<p>-In my opinion, science and religion are just different ways of explaining the same thing. Atheism is neither, basically. The very fact that human beings live and must face death attests to the fact that we must have some explanation for it. </p>
<p>Have you ever met someone who has never wondered why we die? Never been scared to die?</p>