Religion, How Do I Hate Thee? Let Me Count the Ways.

[DavidDvorkin]

I put this up on my blog, but I'm not sure if Blogger will let it stay there.

I hate religion in the abstract and the specific, but I hate different religions in different ways, and that’s what I wanted to write about.

https://eyeblister.blogspot.com/2024/09/religion-how-do-i-hate-thee-let-me.html

[walkingman]

1. I consider religions to be the destroyers of humanity.

They are the primary reason we are not better than this....worldwide.

[Think. Again.]

2. Pretty much every negative thing humanity does...

...can be traced back to the teachings of the most popular organized religions.

We would be sooooooo much better off if the majority of people just kept their heads in reality.

[Jerry2144]

3. Humanity's worst invention was

Creating god.

[DavidDvorkin]

4. Yes.

[poozwah]

11. time to change

god has failed at his/her/its job. it is time we get a replacement. better yet, abolish the job. not one of these entities has ever done very well and they have been highly overpaid.

[Lonestarblue]

5. I don't necessarily hate all religion. I hate how devious peoole use it to manipulate others.

Much of the evangelical movement is more like cult than a religion. I’ve never done the research, but I suspect that religion in all forms has been the primary cause of unnecessary deaths throughout the ages.

[keithbvadu2]

6. God says so, but only to the select few who will pass on the message.

[BOSSHOG]

7. The Founding Fathers Warned Us

[GiqueCee]

8. The most shifty-eyed weasel in the cave...

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...said to the biggest bully in the cave, "You be government and I'll be religion! We'll have 'em by the short curlies for the next hundred thousand years!"

I'm not prejudiced. I despise all religions equally. And I once taught Sunday School... until I was excoriated for asking too many questions.

[rainin]

9. I've always thought that atheists could vanquish religion if we organized around atheist "churches".

It's the churches that maintain the power, not merely the religion. People need community and religious houses of worship meet that need.

Being atheist is lonely. I miss what I had as a child when my family would go to our neighborhood church on Sunday morning and Sunday night for services and Wednesday night for a community potluck. My kids never had that. We couldn't find anything that was remotely similar for them. At one point, out of desperation, I tried taking them to church, but found it to be so distasteful, I didn't return. The need for community was, and still is, real.

[DavidDvorkin]

10. There have been attempts to do this, but I think they've all fizzled.

[rurallib]

12. Well a week later, it is still there and I am surely glad it is

You expressed a lot of things I can't quite put together myself. For the past couple of years I have been contemplating just how religions became the central focus of human existence and what a horror they have done. Yet it seems that humanity will continue with religion until it finally destroys life on earth.

[DavidDvorkin]

13. Thank you

I'm relieved that Blogger left it. When I posted it, I got a message saying it would be deleted as hate speech. I added a few words to the beginning about not hating religious people and reposted. The message about it being removed has finally disappeared, so I guess those few extra words did the trick.

Religious belief is so much a part of society that even atheists are often unaware of how pervasive it is, or they shrug it off as just background noise. I think it's much more than that and inherently dangerous.

[rurallib]

14. that is especially true in English - the only language I know

How many times have I said "goddammit" or 'god must have a sense of humor" or the ever popular "god bless you". -- Ona and on it goes "O Lord" it is truly pervasive.

[DavidDvorkin]

15. Yes, but how far should we go?

Should we avoid saying "goodbye"?