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Why wouldn't geeks be atheists? Geeks are people who read and learn. People who educate themselves look for the truth. Religion is based on stories told around campfires and passed on through generations. These are fairy tales, not truths.

I had a teacher at the University of Guam who was a Catholic Priest. He taught a class called Literature and Religion. He broke down all of the stories in the bible and showed how they were fairy tales told to create customs and control cultures so that they could survive through the centuries. They are stories, not facts.

Geeks are generally people who like to find out facts and how things work. The bible stories are interesting in that they were manufactured to lead and control people, but they are not facts. A geek would find the part about controlling culture interesting, but he/she definitely would not take the story for truth. The geek is looking for verifiable facts.

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