I am sometimes asked why I dislike religion. I am asked why I feel the world would be a better place without it and I’m given all sorts of stupid arguments that say why it is a force for good and that the world would be hell if there wasn’t religion. All of that is easily dismissed. It’s not a good or strong argument. I don’t believe that religion makes a person who they are. I don’t believe for a second that it is the reason why they do good or evil. I think it’s nothing more than an excuse in both cases. Those people out there that were raised to care about others and help others out would do so without the teachings of dogma and old superstitions. They use religion to help justify their actions and give them more meaning. I personally think that gives it less meaning, that it takes away from a selfless action/good deed done by someone and reduces it to a “I’m only doing this because someone (God) told me to and I don’t want to go to hell” instead of the remarkable kindness that is really is.
Also I don’t think that it causes people to evil things. Those that use religion to justify killing is nothing new. Everyone has been doing it since the beginning of religion. Hell, I am willing to bet that it was one of the founding principals. “There’s a tribe over there, we worship this, they worship that, they deserve to die.” I do believe that people will happily use it to justify the things they do so they might have a clear conscious, making whatever repugnant thing they did even worse.
This vile article speaks massive volumes of the person that wrote it. To quickly sum it up it says that you shouldn’t lie, EVER, even if the Nazis were asking you were some jews were it would be best to just tell them the truth because a lie is a lie and god hates that.
It shows that they have compassion and no love. That their strict adherence to their old bull shit dogma has sucked out the life from their bodies. That they have driven their archaic rules into their heads for so long that there is no free thought or reason or even any emotion anymore. Nothing but their unwavering rules. What disgusts me the most is the fact that they will sit back and smugly claim that without god you have no morals and that I am a horrible person who should be avoided because (picks random atheist hating evil out of the hat) I’ll probably eat your babies. Yet with jaw dropping statements like
“But consider for a moment that we are all already sentenced to die because we are sinners (Romans 5:12). It is going to happen regardless. If a lie helps keep someone alive for a matter of moments compared to eternity, was the lie, which is high treason against the Creator, worth it?”
Yes, they are basically saying so what those Jews are going to die anyways so what if I tell the Nazis were they are. god will judge me favorably because I didn’t lie. I’m surprised the article didn’t just state well they’re only Jews you know who cares what happens to them. So what that by my actions human beings will be round up and tortured and beaten and most likely have a miserable, horrific, slow death. But you know maybe it will just be the gas chambers those aren’t that bad.
I really have no words to describe how this makes me feel. My jaw just dropped when I read that. Religious nuts will never cease to surprise me and that honestly scares the shit out of me. Here they are happily removing all personal responsibility from themselves. A common trait and function of religion I’ve found. Probably why it caught on so well and has stayed around as long as it has. You don’t have be a good person or do anything good in order to be sure of your eternal soul just have to follow these rules and we’ll use magic away guilt to remove all the pesky moral problems and paint them the way we want them to be painted.
Bah. Sickening.
