I was specifically refering to an atheist doing just that...bringing a lawsuit against a school.
I'd love to hear the context. I have doubts that the lawsuit was simply about a girl having a bible with her during class. Unless the school was permitting her to proselytize during class hours. That would be inappropriate.

The point being all such intolerant and disrespectfully types of practices by individuals in any given area are whats wrong
I agree with you! The problem (as I see it) is that too many, though not all or even most, theists have no difficulty disrespecting OTHER people's beliefs. In fact, many think it their duty to denigrate other religions (ref. that Pat Robertson quote about Episcopalians,Presbyterians and Methodists). It's only when you attack THEIR religion that they scream "Intolerance!"

Blinks...oh really...well you would be surprised to know than that the word theory does in fact exist outside of the scientific method
I do hope you aren't deliberately missing my point. Yes, the WORD theory can be used anywhere, in any circumstances by anyone. It's just a word. Within the confines of SCIENCE, however, a theory has a much more rigid definition, and it DOES require evidence for it to be accepted.

I can have a theory that, when you put a bag of microwave popcorn into your microwave, tiny little invisible nanodevils are excreted by the paper bag and make the kernels pop by poking them with their fiery prongs. It's "just a theory", and you can't prove they don't, so you can't say I'm wrong, can you? Do you think we should teach this "alternative theory" in a science class?

take any science class that goes at all into the histroy of itse own development (which is allmost all of them) and you will perhaps find how that very thing is done.
But again, you're talking HISTORY, even the history of science, and not actual SCIENCE! And even when teaching such history, it has to be relevant to the science! And it has to be noted as history, and not necessarily our current understanding.

We can, for example, teach that at one point the common people believed that the Earth was flat. It would then be appropriate to teach how we came to understand the spherical nature of the world. It would NOT be appropriate to have to explain that there are still some people now who believe the Earth is flat, and then teach THEIR reasons for believing that. Why should we care about their reasons? They are WRONG! They have no SCIENTIFIC basis for their beliefs. Those beliefs should NOT be taught in a science class!

Too bad the only evidence you have to go on for that "guess" is the Bible huh?
The Bible had nothing to do with my guess. And it is only a guess. I have no data to support it. That's why I said it was a guess! I do, however, see how cultures and sub-cultures throughout history, and even today, tend to destroy themselves quite effectively when they ignore the golden rule. If you have to worry that every person you meet on the streets could kill you, you don't develop any kind of civilization. Look into the study of chimpanzees and the great apes. You'll find that, within any given group, there are hierarchies and rules of behavior. Those who violate those rules are banished from the group. You find the same kind of behavior in every group of social animals. There's no reason to believe that humans couldn't develop these rules themselves, without some pronouncement from on high.

I dont care if they are the founder of their faith. They do not represent all of the people who are religious, nor perhaps even all of the people who share the same religion as they do, and even at that..their statements actually countradict their own tennets of faith...meaning they are in the wrong.
The problem is that they represent the leadership of the religion, not the faith. They set the rules! Believers follow the rules or are excommunicated. These kinds of people attain an extremely devoted group of followers, much like rock stars. You see people all the time who mimic their favorite TV and movie stars, trying to wear the same clothes, restyling their hair, getting botox injections. How much more potent, and dangerous, when the person you admire claims to be in direct communication with God!

Faith is not the problem. Religion, or more accurately, religious organizations are the problem.

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Come be peerless with me then and cut this pro atheism anti-religion rant bs out with all this sophist use of dogma ... your not helping "the cuase"...come over to the secular side of the fence...not only is the grass here greener...instead of fighting all the time we can devote our efforts to kinky pursuits instead.
LOL! That's ALMOST an offer I can't refuse! I'm not so sure you could handle me, though. And I'm DAMNED sure I couldn't handle you!