Look.
Jim Jones. David Koresh. The Baker’s. The Spanish Inquisition. The Christians that dismembered Hyapatia the scholar in Alexandria, and drug her through the streets all because she taught men ca. 5th or 6th century, not to mention destroying the great library at Alexandria, setting science and mathematics back at the minimum a century or more. Fanatical Islam. The Jews that crucified Christ.
Religion equals insanity. At least atheists can think freely without dogma and gods clouding morality.
The Judeo Christian and god of Mohammed is the same vengeful, cruel god, built upon by centuries of mythology, exploited by rulers to control the masses, and is a bastion of lost hope for the hopeless.
Think freely, and you can save yourself, and only when you save yourself, can you help others, and that is what Christ was saying before he was executed.
Sure, I believe in Christ. That guy was a rebel. A free thinking individual mind. But he was no god, or half god. He was a man, just like you or me.
I AM AN ATHEIST. I HAVE RIGHTS. I HAVE A RIGHT TO THINK AND FREEDOM FROM RELIGION, FREEDOM TO EXPRESS MY THOUGHTS UNDER THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. I WILL NOT HAVE RELIGIOUS NUTTERS CRUCIFYING ME FOR WHAT OUR FOUNDING FATHERS DIED FOR, FOR INALIENABLE HUMAN RIGHTS AND EQUALITY UNDER LAW.
You say atheists pass judgment? Well guess what- there is no dogmatic doctrine that says I CAN’T. I live in the buckle of the bible belt, and a lot of Christians use Jesus to make themselves feel better about all the wrong and evils they do in everyday life. Religion just gives people an excuse to commit evil, to hurt their fellow man, and then turn to their vengeful god for salvation and forgiveness just so they will feel better about themselves.
2000 years of religious nutters and warfare and humanity has not grown up one iota.
We should have been plotting our way through our solar system by now. We should have eradicated hunger and disease by now. We should have learned to coexist with each other by now, conquered mental illness, warfare, genocide and general stupidity but thanks to organized religion and the vanity, greed, lust, gluttony, avarice, bloodshed that religious intolerance breeds, not to mention the indoctrination and destruction of rugged individuals into this backwater backward antiquated way of thinking, we are stuck.
We are a willful, arrogant, barbaric species. We deserve nothing less than extinction, thanks to the arrogance and hatred of religion.
When we realize that religion has served its purpose in the past, and can come to terms with what we desire to be humanity and what we actually are, will we actually be enlightened and tolerant of free thinking.
ORHERWISE, WE ARE ALL A BUNCH OF STUPID PRIMATES AND WE SHOULD HAVE NEVER COME DOWN FROM THE TREES.
To hell with religion. Long live FREEDOM of THOUGHT
