Atheists & Agnostics
Related: About this forumReligion, How Do I Hate Thee? Let Me Count the Ways.
I put this up on my blog, but I'm not sure if Blogger will let it stay there.
https://eyeblister.blogspot.com/2024/09/religion-how-do-i-hate-thee-let-me.html
walkingman
(8,457 posts)They are the primary reason we are not better than this....worldwide.
Think. Again.
(18,598 posts)...can be traced back to the teachings of the most popular organized religions.
We would be sooooooo much better off if the majority of people just kept their heads in reality.
Jerry2144
(2,627 posts)Creating god.
DavidDvorkin
(19,917 posts)poozwah
(278 posts)god has failed at his/her/its job. it is time we get a replacement. better yet, abolish the job. not one of these entities has ever done very well and they have been highly overpaid.
Lonestarblue
(11,932 posts)Much of the evangelical movement is more like cult than a religion. Ive never done the research, but I suspect that religion in all forms has been the primary cause of unnecessary deaths throughout the ages.
keithbvadu2
(40,323 posts)BOSSHOG
(40,119 posts)GiqueCee
(1,440 posts)Last edited Fri Sep 13, 2024, 11:08 AM - Edit history (1)
...said to the biggest bully in the cave, "You be government and I'll be religion! We'll have 'em by the short curlies for the next hundred thousand years!"
I'm not prejudiced. I despise all religions equally. And I once taught Sunday School... until I was excoriated for asking too many questions.
rainin
(3,189 posts)It's the churches that maintain the power, not merely the religion. People need community and religious houses of worship meet that need.
Being atheist is lonely. I miss what I had as a child when my family would go to our neighborhood church on Sunday morning and Sunday night for services and Wednesday night for a community potluck. My kids never had that. We couldn't find anything that was remotely similar for them. At one point, out of desperation, I tried taking them to church, but found it to be so distasteful, I didn't return. The need for community was, and still is, real.
DavidDvorkin
(19,917 posts)rurallib
(63,255 posts)You expressed a lot of things I can't quite put together myself. For the past couple of years I have been contemplating just how religions became the central focus of human existence and what a horror they have done. Yet it seems that humanity will continue with religion until it finally destroys life on earth.
DavidDvorkin
(19,917 posts)I'm relieved that Blogger left it. When I posted it, I got a message saying it would be deleted as hate speech. I added a few words to the beginning about not hating religious people and reposted. The message about it being removed has finally disappeared, so I guess those few extra words did the trick.
Religious belief is so much a part of society that even atheists are often unaware of how pervasive it is, or they shrug it off as just background noise. I think it's much more than that and inherently dangerous.
rurallib
(63,255 posts)How many times have I said "goddammit" or 'god must have a sense of humor" or the ever popular "god bless you". -- Ona and on it goes "O Lord" it is truly pervasive.
DavidDvorkin
(19,917 posts)Should we avoid saying "goodbye"?