I agree with you 100% there Ghost.

This is how I see it:
Science has an explanation for just about everything you can think of.

The religious try to pass off their ancient texts as proof of their empty claims of life. Oh gee, someone 2000 years ago or more wrote a story book. If it's that old, it simply must be true!

I love coming upon religious types who ask us that age old question "Well, if there is no God, where did everything come from? God created the heavens and the universe."
My response being "Who created God?"
Their retort is usually "God has always been."
To which I say "If your God could have always been, why can't existance have always been? The universe is enormous. There is no way to travel it all, to measure it all. There are billions and billions and billions and billions of miles of uncharted darkness out there, beyond what we can see, and it's still growing. There is hard scientific evidence of stars and commodoties that are well beyond the age of our planet and our solar system. So what then? Did God just sit around for eons creating different things at different times? Where is he now? Why was he all over the place back then, up to 2000 years ago, and now he is just gone? Why did he stop showing just about the time that the texts were written about him?"

There are other, older religions that have multiple gods. Zues, for instance. How come the idea of a god of lightning, among other gods, is rediculous to everyone else but who really believes in it? The muslims believe in Allah. Christians just have 'God' (they weren't even trying to think of a cool name like everyone else.). So in other words, different cultures have their dietys. Each one is just as believable, or rediculous, as the next.

As Res said. Religion is man-made. Dietys are just as real as the Tooth Fairy and the Easter Bunny. Just on a much larger, and more fanatical level.

Neither side of the argument can state where it all started, or provide any proof thereof, so IMO, it's not worth worrying about.

I look at all religion as a cult. Plain and simple. I get on my knees for no one or nothing.