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Originally Posted by Pubic Wig
I often find that people with no religious beliefs and try to force their way of thinking down ones throat are as bad as those who do have religious beliefs and do the same thing.
Just a thought.
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I disagree. I think religious belief is such a backwards, dark ages way of thinking that it should be challenged at every turn. Religion is (IMO) utterly evil in the bullshit it spouts from its selfrighteous, truth denying, mouth.
I used to be a 'live and let live' atheist but now I'm very much a militant one. I would happily see religion and its associated crap scoured from the face of the planet. At least then we could just accept that *we're* the bad ones when we do bad things, rather than blaming it on some non-existent Sky-god.
It comes down to who is right and who is wrong. I firmly and completely believe that religious believe is wrong, as wrong as thinking the earth is flat or only 6000 years old (the latter being something that fundamentalist christians hold as fact). To allow this kind of nonsensical, superstitious way of thinking to hold any level of credence or authority is a gross neglect of our duty to one another as human beings.
There should be more people out there like Dawkins, Hitchens and the rest of the 'angry atheist' crowd. Rational thought has been sidelined for too long and, by doing nothing, the atheist gives tacit approval to the evils being perpetrated in the name of 'god'.
The last ten years has seen a terrifying rise in religious thinking, look at the major conflicts in the world - on one side you have the US government, led by a born again christian and drawing its support from fundamentalist churches, and on the other you have Islamist wahhabi extremists misreading the Koran and trying to create a global Muslim state for the Umma which will be governed by Shariah law. Both points of view are so obscene and based on ancient myth and superstition that they should be actively struggled against.
You wouldn't want someone who thought that the world was flat to be your PM or President would you? So why do we allow these deluded fools who believe in 'god' to have any power? Why do we put up with it?