Faith begets violence and death

So in this article on faith in the military, one soldier says his faith helps him justify his actions in the war.

And that is the whole problem.

Faith justifies violence. People say atheists are amoral and faithless, and think that this makes them violent, but this makes them the opposite of violence.

I have no faith in God or fate. Thus I have no excuse for violence, and I would not kill another human being EVEN IN MY OWN DEFENSE. How many Christians will make that vow, despite all the talk of 'turn the other cheek'? Few if any, because they believe everything is written in the sky for them, and that their actions are justified even if it means innocents will die.

Want to argue this? Tell me just one single military conflict of the last decade that wasn't based on someone of one religion hating another. Just one.

And these soldiers saying that God will protect them need to wake up. To say that you are certain God will protect you is to say that all those troops that have died were faithless and evil, which is clearly not the case, especially from their view.

No. Your God, supposedly both all powerful and all loving, has allowed this mess to continue. Again, either your God is all powerful, in which case he couldn't be all loving when you look at the results of his creation, or he is all loving, in which case he wants to help but is powerless to do so because of the mass idiocy of his followers.

Where is your God now?

A terrible tragedy occurred when a young child was crushed by a church parade float. I don't mean to make light of this at all, quite the contrary. But..

Anyone that is a member of that Church should think. They believe in an all-mighty loving God; -why- would an all powerful God allow -his- float to crush a small child? Where was their all-powerful loving God when their innocent child was crushed?

They should consider this, and then find a new religion that doesn't include such a contradiction.

Georgia mayor resorts to the power of prayer

So the Georgia governor is praying for rain... and some people actually believe this will work.
People... if this works.. it will be a coincidence. Please think about it:

1) If his deity existed, and was all-powerful and loving as claimed, he would never allow this to happen. Its like praying for no more hurricanes after Katrina. What? You're going to tell an all powerful deity to 'please stop it'? Do you think if you grovel long enough before your 'loving' God, that he will stop tormenting you? Instead you should ask yourself "Why is he doing this in the first place?".
2) This is a modern age. Back during the Dark Ages when people would blame natural disasters on random folk and burn them at the stake, they at least had the excuse that they were ignorant of science. We are not ignorant. We are suppose to know. Any of you can go on the internet and look up meteorology and find out how rain works and what things are happening that are causing climate turmoil.
3) Even if you look from a Christian point of view: How many years have the people in that area (and other areas) practiced mass wastefulness of water? Water shortages do not just happen, even if there is a drought. Do they think it is some mystical deity's responsibility to bail them out of the situations they get into?

Atlanta has been explosively growing over the last decade, using a limited amount of water. This is the predictable result of overpopulation and climate change, and needs to be dealt with scientifically. One of the major problems with cleaning up pollution is these primitives that are counting on God to bail them out and do not think its important for them to do their part.

I really do hope they take this seriously and stop counting on magic to save them.