here's an interesting article about the current tension between religious thinkers and atheists. You might have read my recent post about believing in God. It wasn't really an attempt to convince anyone of my subjective beliefs, but was simply in order to illustrate that believing in God can be perfectly reasonable and rational - it's not just the sole preserve of superstitious simpletons (though it might help)....

kind of related (and I'm not one of those people that thinks that religion requires a rejection of science) here are 13 things that do not make sense from New Scientist