I have never been very religious, but with every passing day, with every dead body killed in the name of God, and every perverted priest and every Dixie bigot that burns books and brainwashes their children with the grim tales of Medieval Stupidity that passes for "Truth", I become even less so.
Science was not brought to me by a door to door salesman, pushing his belief on me. I was not brought up to believe in science, in fact just the reverse. My mother tried to bribe me into becoming "more religious" with a '65 Chevy. Of course I never did become more religious, and never got the Chevy until much later when I bought my own.
There are "Bible Camps" that make military boot camps seem like they are for pussies. You put your kids in there and God is beaten into them like railroad spikes. None of that "evolution rubbish."
Religions are death cults. They promise some kind of paradise after you're dead. Of course, how can you prove such a thing? You can't, so you have to have faith. Like the faith in the Republican Party to push "family values". Is family values killing Iraqi families and American kids in a senseless war that can't be won without killing everybody?
How would they treat "atheist families" -- Bible Camps?
The only thing about religion that I have faith in is that humans can be made to believe anything -- fairy tales, urban legends, the Loch Ness monster, etc.
Science is not the "opposite" of religion. Both science and religion can be used for evil purposes, and both are destroying the habitat on Earth. If there is such a thing as Evil, it wears a Holy cloak, and seeks the science of nuclear weapons.
I allowed my own daughter to seek the "truth" as she saw fit. She went to church when she wondered what it was about. There were many people trying to convert her to one thing or another, but thankfully, she just stayed who she was to begin with. Now she is a wonderful mother with a wonderful child of her own. And she does not have religion.
Instead, she has compassion.
Science was not brought to me by a door to door salesman, pushing his belief on me. I was not brought up to believe in science, in fact just the reverse. My mother tried to bribe me into becoming "more religious" with a '65 Chevy. Of course I never did become more religious, and never got the Chevy until much later when I bought my own.
There are "Bible Camps" that make military boot camps seem like they are for pussies. You put your kids in there and God is beaten into them like railroad spikes. None of that "evolution rubbish."
Religions are death cults. They promise some kind of paradise after you're dead. Of course, how can you prove such a thing? You can't, so you have to have faith. Like the faith in the Republican Party to push "family values". Is family values killing Iraqi families and American kids in a senseless war that can't be won without killing everybody?
How would they treat "atheist families" -- Bible Camps?
The only thing about religion that I have faith in is that humans can be made to believe anything -- fairy tales, urban legends, the Loch Ness monster, etc.
Science is not the "opposite" of religion. Both science and religion can be used for evil purposes, and both are destroying the habitat on Earth. If there is such a thing as Evil, it wears a Holy cloak, and seeks the science of nuclear weapons.
I allowed my own daughter to seek the "truth" as she saw fit. She went to church when she wondered what it was about. There were many people trying to convert her to one thing or another, but thankfully, she just stayed who she was to begin with. Now she is a wonderful mother with a wonderful child of her own. And she does not have religion.
Instead, she has compassion.
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