My simple steps to atheism

[mopinko]

1. my path- evolutionary psychology

religion is a vestige of following that big silverback male. (yes, i know that's gorillas, not chimps. poetic license.)

but the start was comparative religion in hs.
i saw that in every culture, man created a god in his own image.
set norms, form an army, settle disputes, divvy up the wimins.

he was looking for something that didnt exist any more. we invented politics to do the same job.
and hierarchies of all sorts.

what pains me is what it costs.
in my case, the thing that most pisses me off as an irish kid who went to catholic school-
i am 67, and it's only in the couple years that i have learned the full history if my people.
you know what i knew about my heritage until now? the irish saints.

you know how i ended up being raised in this country? religion.
it was also in the last few years that i have learned how my grandparents ended up as refugees. from a genocide, disguised as a freak of nature.

we need to be enlightened or we all die.