Well...since I believe 100% that my religion is the correct one, naturally I feel the world should reflect that. Anyone with a strong religious beleif would say the same. I'm just more honest than some conisder wise.
I disagree with that. I mainly beleive in science becuase unlike religion, you can prove (or at least try to prove) most of it yourself. In religion.. it's all about faith... blind faith... You just beleive.. why? Becuase God (who no one can prove exists) told someone, who told a bunch of people, who then told a whole bunch of other people, who told another group of people who eventually told your parents, who told you, and you beleive becuase that's what you've been told. If you don't beleive it, you go to hell, if you question it, you go to hell, if you think about questioning it or not beleiving in it, it's the same thing as actually doing it, so you go to hell AGAIN. I'm all for teaching people morals, but if you think that threatening everyone that doesn't beleive what you beleive with eternal torment and suffering is a good moral, then I'm not going to side with you.
Science on the other hand is constantly open-minded and learning, always questioning itself and examining everything. It's not like I don't beleive in the possibility of God, I just beleive in the possibility of the absence of God as well.
I would love it if God truly existed, it would add much more meaning to life, it would give you security that after you die, you have something ahead of you. If god doesn't exist, and there's pure nothingness after, it would depress me, however, I'm not afraid to think that it's a possibility. I'm not afraid to take any theory and roll it around my head for a while, come up with my own opinion and express it. There's nothing wrong with that, as most people have said already it just makes us smarter and better.
My overall point is if religious people weren't so "all-knowing" relaxed a little and actually questioned themselves from time to time, you'd probably have many more followers.