As an atheist I am finding it harder and harder to fathom
all the bullshit pandering to religion going on at the moment. I am all for
peace and human beings being decent towards each other but I am not going to be
bullied into accepting, without question, belief systems, and their associated
practices, that are at the root of so many of the world’s current problems. I
understand that many decent and peace loving people do proclaim a belief in a
God and and allegiance to a particular religion. But I will not for one minute
accept that any religion can be ignored, or exempt from scrutiny, by simply
claiming it is a religion of peace. Calls for peace and calls for violence can
be found in any so called sacred text. Christianity, Judaism and Islam, the big
three, are inconsistent, antiquated, intolerant faith systems that are based on
superstitious bullshit and a disdain for the innate nature of human beings. I
have no tolerance for them.
I was baptised and initially educated within the Catholic
faith. I rejected it outright at quite an early age as a consequence of
exercising my human capacity for free and rational thought. It appears that
that type of thinking in many areas of modern life is not acceptable - not
politically correct. Religion, the current human population and economic growth
are three big no go zones for open and critical dialogue – they are essentially
taboo. I thought religious bullshit and tyranny was done away with 500 years
ago with the Enlightenment. I guess I have underestimated the power that fear
and ignorance can have over people.
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