Religion
In reply to the discussion: Atheists Still Waiting for the Origin-of-Life Messiah [View all]ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)Screw Mrs. God in order to spawn the Baby Jesus? Were they married? If not, is Jesus the illegitimate son of god, an out of wedlock bastard who has no legal claims on daddy god's estate?
I keep wondering about transportation, too. How did daddy god send his illegitimate son to Earth? Some celestial space shuttle?
Ok, enough snark. After years of study, I am convinced that religion, more than anything else, kills. We'd be far better off without it as a species. Fear, the unknown, and bad advice from charlatans is why the tattered remnants of faith still cling on to various societies' throats with such desperation. But even that is evolving. The fastest growing group in America is the "nones" mainly because they refuse to accept the stupidity, irrational excuses, and fear based closing of one's mind that faith requires.