All religions primarily aim to restrict sexual and intellectual freedom in that order.
I am only interested in seeking the answers to the questions I asked earlier. I took the above definition of religion from my copy of Microsoft Bookshelf. There are many other definitions, no doubt, however this one will suffice for my comments. I think atheism sometimes has all the hallmarks of a fundamentalist christian sect - the arguments propounded are as shrill as those of any christian fundamentalist. Now I might be grasping at hairs here, but no more so than the two learned gentlemen you quoted in your reply.