General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: Woman on CNN tells Wolf " um i am actually a Atheist" [View all]BlueStreak
(8,377 posts)They have everybody brainwashed to babble their nonsense whenever they can't come up with something intelligent (or compassionate) to say. Sometimes there are no answers other than "How very sad and tragic this is. The survivors will have to move on without their loved ones."
But instead, the religions train their flock to say "The victims are in a better place." Well, actually no. They are dead. "Dead" is not a better place, but it happens to us all eventually. It isn't "if", it is only "how" and "when".
Denial is the choice that religious people make, and if that gets them through their time of grief, I have to live with that. But I don't have to live with them brainwashing our children in the schools and putting their nonsense on the media 24x7.
What we should be talking about is not why god killed some of his best supporters in Oklahoma. We should be talking about how we can get these confused people to stop voting for people who would deny emergency relief funds to others in their time of crisis, and those who work aggressively against all efforts to try to limit the progress of climate change. How come all these people who have a "personal connection with the lord" never seem to hear those messages when they talk with their lord?