Falthron said:
Dan Steele said:
Falthron said:
Dan Steele said:
Race barriers and religion
Science flew us to the moon, religion flew us into buildings
racism because its a poison that keeps us from uniting as a whole.
I know, thats 2. I'll just flip a coin on it
Did you just generalize all religious people as terrorists.
Yes, but not the suicide bombers the media has popularized. I view religious people as terrorists to themselves. Think about it, most religions teach there brainwashed followers they are fallen sinners that are unworthy of love and affection and are only redeemed through pledging allegiance to the prophet of there religion, while the religions that don't do that make you waste your life away with pointless prayer. In the end it still wastes your life.
We need to do away with beliefs that make you feel guilty for being human, that is the real terrorism.
How long has it been since you've been to a religious service? First off your generalizing all religion to be Abrahamic, animist and many polytheists don't have a specific prophet(usually) and don't necessarily pray all that much.
Secondly, why do you completely forget the other parts of religion other than devotion, like help the poor, meek, etc. in the Christian faith, or how Islam united separate clans into a sprawling empire that promoted intellectual discovery and trade in the Classical per'iod (using Abrahamic because I know about these more.) "Wasting life with pointless prayer..... WE'RE VIDEO GAMERS we waste our time and life too in pursuit of entertainment or the next level. Your making assumption and generalizations about a group that you are no part of! The only religious people you wish to see are the outspoken crazy one! What about organizations like the Red Cross, or Christian Church groups who organize charities to give to various countries in need? Is that terrorism? Many Christian Churches I've been to are merely congregation points for believers to spread the word, learn about what the(primarily new testament) scripture and help the needy, you know like what Jesus preached. It's not terrorism to themselves, especially when many times a religious experience can drive them to become a better person as a whole. I know it's predominantly Christian oriented, but that is what I know.
You know I don't hate atheist, at least not by default, but that is really hard to do on this site when many atheists here also have some weird Vendetta against religon. I ask you to respect my beliefs(whether or not you think I'm "Brainwashed" doesn't matter), and I'll respect yours).
Now on to the real topic, removing an aspect of Mankind is a tricky subject, your bound to want to remove something that may have some unintended consequences and make the end result not quite human any more, so with that in mind I would like to remove the lapses in common sense people tend to have. I know many of us probably had an error in judgement in the past that they would like to take back, I don't think much humanity would disappear if we had fewer Darwin Awards.
Its alot to answer at once but I will try my best.
1.) It has been a good 5 years since I attended a church sermon and 3 years since I renounced my baptism.
2.) while not everyone is as devoted as I mistakenly generalized most to be, there still are the ones I run into who have not even read the book they are basing there lives on and still use it to bash homosexuals or other religions along with a few races.
3.) The other parts of a religion may say help the poor, meek, etc, but that is most of the times only for spreading there message of there religion. Much like "We helped you, so you owe us by joining our faith"
4.) While religions like Islam and Christianity might have spearheaded humanity a bit, imagine how far science and learning could have gone forward if there was no dark ages or sharia law promising death to anyone who tries to disprove there belief.
5.) What I meant by wasting your life, is wasting your life with something you don't want to do. If you enjoy playing video games I would not say you are wasting your life playing them.
6.) I may not be a part of it now, but I was a part of it once.
7.) If you think the red cross is christian then you would be surprised to find that it is actually very secularist or mixed religion, I suggest reading this
http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2011/12/the-salvation-army-ringing-anti-gay-bells-this-holiday-season/
While I do commend religious charities on there great anti poverty work, I will not commend intolerance and bigotry by running the "But were a charity, we can do or say whatever we want because we help people" slogan. The are plenty of secularist charities too. Only you don't hear about them much because the religious media tries to blot them out of the spotlight
8.) While Jesus may have preached peace and that's assuming he existed in the first place. His message has become so contorted and convoluted it has became a hollow shell of what it once was.
9.) Anyone could become a better person if they were told that they would be tortured for the rest of eternity for not believing.
10.) I will respect your beliefs as soon as the religious right wing stops trying to pass laws and regulations based on there beliefs. I don't mind if you keep your beliefs to yourself and I will follow suit if such a thing happens, but until then I must bring up a famous quote: "Religion is like a penis, its okay to have one and its okay to be proud of it, but don't wave it around in public and don't try to stick it down my kid's throat."
I do not have any hatred for religious people, but I do have a hatred for stupid things done in the name of religion. I am not an atheist, I'm what you would identify as agnostic. With all of that aside though, I believe the human race can fare better without racism, which is what the coin landed on.
