We may all be doomed.... reflections from a FB interaction

[Bettie]

12. Religion seems to be able to take the smartest people

and turn them into the clueless.

It isn't that they don't understand, they simply choose not to.

I say I'm agnostic, but that's just the hope that there is something else, functionally, I'm an atheist.

But, I can see the lure of believing that there is some benevolent father figure looking over us, absolving us of any wrongdoing and punishing those who "sin". The lure of evangelical Christianity is that that father figure, that "god" hates a whole lot of people and their churches give them not just permission but a command to use their religious beliefs as a bludgeon against anyone they deem "sinful".

Just my observations from being raised in an evangelical family. I've watched family members (mine and DH's) morph from benign church ladies and men into people who care nothing for those outside their church.