If I could have just one wish, and we're talking a wish on a grand scale here - not a personal or private wish, I would wish for the destruction of any and all religious organizations on the planet.
Religion scares the hell out of me.
What prompted me to write this was reading some of the comments from people around the country today in response to the news of New York's recognizing gay marriages. New York and California have both made history in the last month by officially recognizing gay marriage as legal. This has set religious folk into a rabid frenzy.
How DARE those dirty, wretched gays try to DESTROY the sanctity of marriage. They forget that over half of all marriages end in divorce, that millions of children are born out of wedlock, and that marriage wasn't even religious in origin. They try to compare love between two people of the same sex with incest, polygamy, molestation, and bestiality. They say that recognizing a same sex couples marriage by law will lead to the destruction of our country and lead us all into hell. They dictate the wants and commands of their made up god to reflect their own personal hatred.
It's become very clear to me that religion is a form of brain washing.
Religion is responsible for the lions share of all wars ever started. Religion is responsible for hindering the progression of scientific breakthroughs. When science wants to make a bold push forward with advancing something as noble as curing diseases, regrowing limbs, improving the quality of life or exploring the wonders of our universe, religious fanatics are guaranteed to step in to stir things up because it scares them. It's not written in their fiction novel, the bible, and it may lead to proving their religion is a farce.
I recently read about a woman in France who was suffering from a rare and incurable form of cancer in her nasal passages. The disease caused her face to expand and distort in all directions, her eyes to fall out, her sense of taste and hearing to stop working, and left her living daily life in unimaginable and excruciating pain. She wanted the country to grant her the right to be euthanized because she could not bare the pain of living out her last stage of the cancer.
What did the good old religious folk think? They said that their 'god' has a path for everyone, and if she was meant to live her life in this way, she should be forced to see it through to the end because it was god's plan. Unfortunately, France agreed and the woman ended up taking her own life since she could not be allowed to die with an ounce of dignity still intact. The religious folks didn't like that either. That granted her a place on a boat straight to hell according to them.
There are 21 major religions in the world, and every one thinks they're right and the others are wrong.
Some believe that science and religion can form some kind of working relationship, but I disagree. Religion does nothing but hamper scientific breakthrough's by throwing up biblical red flags when something 'scary and new' comes along. Religion questions stem cell research and it questions space exploration. In a recent survey in the US, the majority of participants even thought nanotechnology was immoral. I'm sure most of them were religious folk. Good grief!
Religion is man-made. At what point in the proven evolutionary chain did God(s) come into existence? I'd say about the time that human beings developed the part of their brain which could imagine. In an attempt to make sense of life early on, people imagined a deity greater than themselves or their community, and developed additional imaginary beliefs around that, and here we are today. Playing this imaginary thing off as some kind of human truth.
I think human beings should exist on a level of decency and established laws, and take the religion completely out of the equation. It's done far more harm than good in my opinion. Fortunately, with each new generation of children born into this world, religion is becoming less and less of an important factor in their own lives.
Alas, I should not judge, so says the Christian's god, so I think I'll borrow their famous "Hate the sin, not the sinner.", and say Hate the beliefs, not the believer.
3 comments:
I think poeple are forgetting the differance between spiritual and religious. Being spiritual vs being religious are two totally differant things. I concur with Kody on religion. I believe it is was created as a way to control the masses into doing what is asked or wanted of them.
Being spiritual is totally differant. I am spiritual in a way that I believe in creation. Not to be confused with God. Creation is the driving force behind all things. God was the entity that people of ancient used to scare other people into in religion. I believe that when humans get back to the roots of creation and start following a spiritual path based on self discovery and betterment the world will be a much better place.
The bible to me is a guide not to be taken literal but to help guide the person through great stories of tragedy and morality to a higher state of spiritualality
I think poeple are forgetting the differance between spiritual and religious. Being spiritual vs being religious are two totally differant things. I concur with Kody on religion. I believe it is was created as a way to control the masses into doing what is asked or wanted of them.
Being spiritual is totally differant. I am spiritual in a way that I believe in creation. Not to be confused with God. Creation is the driving force behind all things. God was the entity that people of ancient used to scare other people into in religion. I believe that when humans get back to the roots of creation and start following a spiritual path based on self discovery and betterment the world will be a much better place.
The bible to me is a guide not to be taken literal but to help guide the person through great stories of tragedy and morality to a higher state of spiritualality
I think Kody and Tony actually have very similar opinions on this topic. Tony thinks people should believe what they want to believe and leave each other alone about it. I think that viewpoint would work just fine for Kody, if religious folk didn't have a stubborn habit of berating who he is and the lifestyle he leads. I personally don't give a crap about religion, it can go or stay. However, I don't have it in my face every day telling me that I'm wrong and my partner is wrong and our life together is wrong. I think if I were Kody I would want religion gone too. I would be fine as long as religion left me alone, but that's exactly the issue. Religions are always finding a problem with some group of people for something unholy they are doing. I'll leave religion alone as long as it leaves me alone.
Also, I tend to agree with Mike on the notion of being spiritual without necessarily subscribing to any particular religion. I think, even if they don't intend any harm, that religions can become a vehicle for extremism. I think this can make them very dangerous when combined with those who have trouble thinking for themselves.
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