Time to Pay Religion the Disrespect It Deserves

[Warren Stupidity]

142. yes I mentioned above that if belief in gods stopped right there, then there wouldn't be a problem.

However, that is not where belief in gods stops, is it? Instead entire ideologies are built up around belief in gods, what we call "religions", and it is those ideology that are the problem. If there weren't religious fanatics slaughtering people we wouldn't be having this discussion. If there weren't religiously centered political forces actively trying to impose misogynist homophobic authoritarian governments on people, we wouldn't be having this discussion. If religion weren't a problem, it wouldn't be a problem.

It is sort of difficult to build an ideology around non belief. Perhaps you could come up with an ideology that is believed in by many people and that is equivalent to a religion and that is built around non belief in the existence of gods and then we could compare that to the numerous examples of religions. I do note that there are atheists, such as de Button, who are trying to construct atheist religions, they just aren't having much success. See also the Ethical Humanists who have been trying, with little success, to build the equivalent of an atheist religion for the last 100+ years. Probably because it is sort of difficult to build an ideology around non belief.