As a religious believer with an interest in science and philosophy (no not talking about the whole confucius stuff...) who has been here quite awhile, I have a few things I think I should add here.

Yes I understand how you atheists feel about Malaysian religious people. Most of them are charismatics and emotionally driven. Most Malaysians are also postmodernists i.e. they hate it when people disagree with them.(I'd blame our education system but...)

But I think we shouldn't be too quick to assign this close-minded behavior to only the religious people. I look at RWI and whenever debates on religion are concerned, there's always two sides just yelling at each other. There's no real intellectual exchange going on (only "quasi-intellectual")

I'm talking about militant atheism/agnosticism. Religious bigots start with the assumption that those who disagree with them are evil demonic people, while militant atheists seem to start with the assumption that all religious people are dumber than them and have no means of being smarter.

Wouldn't things be so much better if we try to understand the position of the people who disagree with us on our worldview before making any stupid arguments?