What you're asking me to do is obey peices of paper. How is that better than trusting in man, who I can relate to, who shares my needs, and to a large degree, my dreams and wants, who I am in the same boat with? Moreover, these peices of paper ask me to believe in something for which there is no evidence, as well as to reject the things for which there is evidence to support. It's insane. If there is a God, and I must stress I am not prepared to exclude that possibility, then he obviously is not the Christian God. The real God could write a better book, something that wouldn't disapoint on every page.
Instead of quoting from a boring tome, why not first check out the site in my signature, and tell me what your honest response is. I don't want to make enemies. I don't want to come over as arrogant or hoity-toity, and I'm sorry if I have. I just deeply love my species, and I don't like the idea of members of my species staking so much on mere fantasy. From what I've seen of the religious world I am quite convinced that, if, say, an asteroid was comming to obliterate all Earth life, the vast majority of the faithfull would not spring into action, but fall to their knees in prayer for salvation. Even if God is real I would still denounce religion for the fatalism it usualy fosters. Atheism, on the other hand, while it has it's share of fatalists, offers us the motivating idea that the universe can, in fact, be understood, and by extension, influenced by man. Our destiny is in our hands. That, to me, is glorious and beautiful beyond anything in the Bible.