[quote name='MSI Magus']Fangs! What do us agnostics get? My guess, fangs but with crappy plastic caps on the end so we cant actually hurt anyone.[/QUOTE]
Dentures?
[quote name='The Crotch']You

ers got fangs?
All I got was this shitty vestigial tail. Can't grasp branches or balance on top of fences or

ing
anything with this thing.[/QUOTE]
Atheist's have got hell fangs. I use mine to open sodas.
[quote name='Knoell']"All christians should die, or wishing they would go away forever" and you are defending it (mockingly, but still defending). Why am I surprised? I really shouldn't be anymore.
If anyone on this board said they wish all muslims would just leave America you guys would be all over them. Rightfully so, however someone says the same about christians, and you practically say "they are getting what is coming to them" because someone somewhere made some argument about muslims tolerating extremism. Funny how you are so quick to blame a religion of a billion people for the remarks of a fraction of those people, but you fight your little heart out to protect another religion from receiving blame for terrorism.[/QUOTE]
Decided to add this on.
To this I am going to try to stay civil on the subject on faith but I will take your argument style and move the goal posts so to speak. So essentially the role of religion is one of societal control, in this case to create a system of civility that holds God at the top and the Church as the official arm of said God, a generally endemic feature of religions but not necessary present in all. In terms of current trends on what people consider to be good social structures to adopt, the structures adopted by almost all religions are ones people would not accept. They are generally built upon the idea of the paymaster (in this case God, but in man made structures things like powerful executive branches) that will punish those not of the faith and who go against accepted norms (while many a C's will argue that this is an unfair representation, it is none the less true because of the very presence of hell as a penalty for not being apart of the collective, in this case church). This honestly means that religions have a structure generally agreed upon to foster corruption, non elected officials with leaders that are not beholden in the slightest to people and built upon the stick of eternal damnation. If these conditions were applied to any man made social system every Christian, and for that matter every person in my opinion, would attack it as being amoral and oppressive, which is actually what is happening when many Christians attack middle eastern countries whose oppressive social systems are oppressive in different ways imo.
In all honesty most of the faith based religions are oppressive by definition, though not all an example of this would be so called new age Quakers or the Society of Friends as they have re-branded itself where each sect is allowed to interpret and practice their own religion in the way that they see fit with the idea that the bible can and should give way to new realities(which in all honesty threw me for a loop considering how dogmatic quakers were at one time). But for the most part most part the societal structure pushed forward by many religions is in many ways no better than an extremely oppressive communistic system, considering that even just Jesus centered Christianity, which is by far the most moderate and accepted form of current faith of C's, asks for mind control (that pesky even thinking evil thoughts is as bad as doing them, so punish yourself accordingly) division of people (something Jesus himself wished to see), and extreme redistribution of wealth (I quote the bible here "... I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of the needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of god" or the always uplifting "... you can not serve God and money" which in all honesty guarantees that any man in charge of money, even those within the church, are probably as crooked as a tree branch and that the current economic system of capitalism guarantees all those who partake are going straight to hell, for in most religions even unconscious sin is still sin). So just listening the word of Jesus asks you to get rid of capitalism, democracy (the bible/God is generally accepted to always be the end all for all societal and civic norms not the will of people), and to censor everything that doesn't jive with Christianity.
But modern Christians don't do any of the things they should. Many believe in Capitalism, Mormons in particular here, many shirk taxes, whether though under reporting or over deducting (a big problem in New York I hear), and many people of faith argue against censorship (which is a good cause if you ask me, but a bad cause of Jesus' teachings). Considering this the only reason people continue to believe in religion is a combination of misunderstanding of religious tenants and a fear of the stick of hell and damnation, the second marking religions as oppressive imo. Your last point is just sloppy, because I am sure many atheists/agnostics would prefer and wish for most people of faith to drop the dogma and idol worship and get on with actually making society better.
Apologies to those of faith if this offends you, but this is how I see religion and if you honesty think I am wrong elucidate me.