and also, to combat the atheists, I have a few arguments:
1) Even if religion is false, it has had an overall positive effect on the world.
2) pascal's wager.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_Wager3) Most atheists on this board seem to pursue atheisim so fanatically that it almost seems like a religion, when most of you are using religious fanatics as an example of why religion is bad.
4)Atheists are such a tiny minority that it occurs to me that many, if not most of them, are doing it just to seem smarter, more edgy, or mostly to seem superior to the "sheeple" who believe. One thing that I have seen across the board with atheists is that they do not realize that they are very unlikely to change anybody's opinion, as accusing them of being wrong will generally just make them defensive. the only people who will abandon their church are the people who's faith is already wavering, and would abandon their church at the introduction of any other idea. anyone of solid faith just gets rooted deeper when you try to make them see what you think is the truth.
TL,DNR: telling people that they are wrong just makes them defensive. it occurs to me that this also applies to this post making people defensive, but oh well.