Sean I don't believe in god, for many of the reasons you have eloquently posted but....I think secularism is on thin ground when arguing about the evilness of religion, when we're just left with 'rationalism' we get, in the wrong hands, Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia, Mao's China and Pol Pot's cambodia.....it is a load of old baloney, but its moral codes perhaps temper some of the obscenities of man standing and thinking by himself... I'm still an existentialist :-S