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I don't believe in God, and I don't believe Christians do either, I think they just claim to (ie, they are lying*) in order to preserve the Church and the social order it represents. In the case of fundamentalism, this is a very old school, non-democratic, explicitly patriarchal (hence the abortion issue) hegemony which permits some people to exercise strict control over the lives of other people (eg, men over women). Hence, religion is only tangentially about morality -- it is really about POWER.
That's sorta funny b/c in all my years at Bible college I was never taught that. Perhaps that power stuff was taught on the days I skipped classes. The main things I was taught at Bible college were