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In reply to the discussion: Should Churches Be Taxed? [View all]Niko
(97 posts)There's facts, and there's fiction. And religion is fiction, period.
The conversion of beliefs from fiction to fact is not proselytization, it's education.
It is a LIE that Earth is 6000 years old. It is a LIE that humans lived with the dinosaurs. It is a LIE that a virgin gave birth. It is a LIE that a man can be raised from the dead. It is a LIE that a man built a boat and put 2 of every animal on it. It is a LIE that humanity started from one man and one woman who didn't evolve from any common ancestor.
The claims of religion are scientifically falsifiable. They are not my "opinions". If you want to go on believing falsehoods, you have every right. I draw the line at people taking money by perpetuating those falsehoods, and indoctrinating children into those falsehoods.
Thankfully, some people grow out of it, but those are too few and far between, and it's arguably the most dangerous force on the planet right now in an age where humanity has the ability to destroy itself. If not through war, then through climate change, or the depletion of resources to the point of mass starvation, all because humanity can't get past it's infancy that is religion.