Quote Originally Posted by Oneironaut
I don't. Who needs unquestionable authority? It's never worked too well here on earth (Hitler and Stalin anybody?), so I can't imagine it would work much better on a cosmic scale.

We don't need an infinitely powerful dictator of the whole universe, who writes all the rules and expects everybody to abide by them unquestioningly, when we can make our own rules with this democracy thing we invented. We need to take our societies into our own hands and run them according to our own reason and common sense, instead of relinquishing power to an invisible friend we can't even detect. This "higher power" superstition is nonsense and if any semblance of popular rule is going to ever exist, we need to stamp it out and make our own ethics for ourselves.
I don't need he/her/it, either... but what are we suppose to do, burn all sacred texts, starve the lions and then feed believers to them? I wish we lived in a secular world, ruled by a populace that doesn't tether itself to myths and fables. But the majority of people do believe some variations of them.