It's 2012, And People Are Still Being Killed Over Make Believe (Religion) Being Treated As Fact

[Tigress DEM]

126. So how is it better to post not one single fact and accuse Religious people of stupidity?

I really WANT to be tolerant of atheists and anyone who believes or chooses not to believe, but when you step up to the plate with bupkiss and pretend it's some huge relevant post....


PUHLEEEESE! I call it bullshit.


I also don't believe that religion is any justification for murder, but I only hold the people who are actually using religion as a smoke screen or being deluded into "Hating in God's name" as being the problem.


I object to the blending of State and Church because of the tendency of this blending to create a way to "control" society.


People who seek through their faith to become better people by applying the principals inherent in the available doctrines should not be wadded up with bozos who don't.


Your only justification for this post is to hate.


Makes you ZERO percent different from those you accuse of being intolerant to the point of murder.

YOU would murder people just because they believe in God.


What? You wouldn't HOW can you prove that? Where is your scientific method?


Well, I believe in God and I haven't killed anyone either ....



AND contrary to what current radical atheism is spouting .... NOT ALL MASS KILLING IS DONE IN GOD's name. Christianity has it's past, but so does atheism.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rory-fitzgerald/richard-dawkins-should-be_b_541387.html



snip

Atheistic communism, as manifested in the Soviet Union, hated religion, "the opium of the masses" and it brought about the murder of millions more in Gulags and purges.

snip

As recently as 1979, the Cambodian genocide killed 1.7 million people. These were murdered by communist atheists. War crimes tribunals are now being set up in Phnomh Penh. The Tibetan people continue to be persecuted by an atheistic tyranny.

http://atheisticviolence.wordpress.com/2007/12/04/atheism-not-religion-is-the-force-behind-the-mass-murders-of-history/

snip

In the name of creating their version of a religion-free utopia, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Mao Zedong produced the kind of mass slaughter that no Inquisitor could possibly match. Collectively these atheist tyrants murdered more than 100 million people.




I HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH ATHEISM..... I actually LIKE most atheists I've personally known.


I have a problem with INTOLERANCE. It is THOSE that think they have the only correct thinking who are dangerous.


I agree with HUFF PO author Rory Fitzgerald ---

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=post&forum=1218&pid=45774
snip

... secularisation has brought society the ability to expose the hidden actvties of religious authorities. A theocracy is as bad a place as a secular dictatorship. Both science and our shared wisdom is of profound importance to all of us. Atheists, believers, agnostics all have a huge amount to contribute to building a better society. Some of the most moral people I know are atheists, and some of the least moral are fervent believers. Neither side has a monopoly on truth or on virtue. But it is in a spirit of co-operative discourse that truth is best served




TRUTH SPEAKS TO THE HEART OF ALL GOOD PEOPLE



and bullshit is bullshit


Wrap it in a flag, wrap it in a cross or paint it with science, it's STILL intolerant bullshit if the only point is to belittle and bemoan.