Personal rantette on the usefulness of religion.
I've become more convinced today with Syria on our minds that religion is and always has been ultimately an instrument to give people a comfort that allows them to die in battle for their leader and church without worrying about death. To glamorize death, to have an eternally perfect unimaginable happy place to look forward to if they perform their services unto death for their leaders. Of course if they fail... well.... there's always HELL! And there's always that warm feeling you get when you know you have helped send your enemy to suffer eternal damnation. They are the bad ones you know.
It's still happening today even in the enlightened west. Sometimes more subtle... a different angle... but it's still the same.
Religion ruins an otherwise decent planet.
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in your poem but just couldn't find it. I suppose your particular poetry style is over my head. 
Your first sentence is nonsense so you can role it over in your own mind all you wish while I ignore it.
on your #1, Has nothing to do with the OP as I see it. If that's your idea of a funeral feel free but it's nonsense for the effect.
on your #2, A short discourse on the meaning of "truth"? Sort of Interesting. But why? You bring in the phrase "why should it (you) bother" I think you mean, "why do you bother with...." answer: Because I am here and I can think. Since you brought it up... at this point, truth to me is the process of reasoning and that is equal to reality. I didn't make that clear enough when I put it in parentheses after the word truth. Sorry. Finally, your opinion of my point of view is not interesting in this case but thanks for sharing.
Your last two lines are more interesting but they are not opinions I share. Your points use the personal view as in "this type of person claims...". In doing so you assume too much again and you are telling me what others say and think, not what you claim. That sounds really self-righteous to me. Commenting to your last point... as far as I know and certainly in my case, atheists usually don't claim to possess the undeniable truth about anything. That's the domain of philosophical views held by the extremely dogmatic. Those who do not believe in a god seek truth like most humans. We may see it from a tangible view rather than from faith, but I seek the subjective truth, I try to live the objective facts.
Uh-uh.
...and because simply calling it a rant doesn't mean that one is free to quit thinking half-way through the argument.
His argument was that religion always was a tool of war-propaganda. I pointed out that this is obviously wrong because religion originated from a time when death-by-war was an exception to death-by-animal and death-by-sickness.
I called his post self-righteous because of his generalization on the role of religion in society from today's civilization to 50,000BC.
I called it pseudo-intellectual because he didn't bother to check his argument before posting it.
And for that I get attacked and seeked to be blocked.
Your blind aggression amuses me, young Skywalker. 
I hereby apologize for appearing condescending and arrogant, two attributes that no atheist has ever exhibited when talking about religion.
