An open letter to religious people:
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Thread Topic: An open letter to religious people:
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Hold on now! Before you go and get the wrong idea, this ISN'T another thread about why religion is bad, or why it's wrong. Of cours, it IS bad, and it IS wrong. But this is so blindingly obvious that it no longer needs to be said. Instead, this is a direct attack on you, the religious person. The argument? That your failure to reject religion indicates you are colossally, irredeemably stupid. Religion is fundamentaly flawed in a staggering variety of ways, to the point that a curious child can bring down the entire framework of baloney with an innocent question. Such questions include, "Why is there evil?", "Who made God?", "Why should I trust you after that santa claus thing?". But you didn't ASK those questions, did you? Or if you did, you accepted the pathetic rationalizations that were offered without further contemplation. Perhaps you were afraid to ask, or even to think about it. Your comforting little worldview mattered more to you than the truth. But can this critical failure really be blamed on a fear of the consequences of religion being worse? Is a godless world too terrible to contemplate? The idea that santa claus isn't real is also unpleasant, and this provides a deterrent to disbelief. But not a significant one. God doesn't even bring people presents. In fact, in most religions he's kind of a jerk. Plagues and laws and smiting and eternal torture. Is this really so attractive an idea that people cannot let it go? Perhaps disinterest is the only real problem. After all, if a man can't read greek, that doesn't make him stupid. It simply means he doesn't care to read greek. But can a lack of interest in the FUNDAMENTAL NATURE OF REALITY really be justified in this way? Maybe so. After all, it makes little difference in day to day living whether god is up there or not. AND YET, SHOULDN'T THE FACT THAT GOD'S EXISTANCE HAS NO MAJOR CONSEQUENCES ITSELF RAISE A RED FLAG?? The idea that a being with immense powers exists, but never tampers with the world in a noticable way is an absurdly childish hpothetical scenario. it's "I'm not touching you" on a cosmic scale. Granted, we used to see a lot more evidence of god's tampering than we do today. Lightning, disease, floods, butterflies, the sun. But even then, a bunch of inexplicable things hardly adds up to a big magical man who you can't see. And of course, all this "evidence" wilted and died with sufficient rational inquiry. The sun and stars turned out to be big nuclear furnaces, disease and butterflies are now well understood, and lightning is just an electrical discharge. Indeed, from leopard spots to pregnancy to the shape of the earth, religion has been proven wrong, wrong, wrong. It would take an IDIOT not to see a pattern in this. And that's exactly what you're acting like. The icing on this pathetic cake is that you realize all the OTHER religions are wrong, you just have a blind spot toward your own. Perhaps you have a vague awareness that religion is retarded, but you never really give it up because your thoughts are too disorganized to deal with it. If this is the case, and your mind is a dusty closet of odds and ends, motivational phrases and vacation photos, I have nothing but contempt for you. I refuse to respect religious beliefs. Your willful ignorance is inexcusable and it disgusts me.
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There was no need to be rude like that.........
How would you feel if someone said that to you?
I'm being brought up in that religion and i'm not living. -
And I don't hate you but that was pretty rude......
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Kiki, I'm going to guess that the girl in the pic is you. Right? If it is, you're positively, undeniably gorgeous.
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it kinda states near the beginning that it's an attack on the person, not the belief.
I agree with horus a little bit. I personally welcome people to try and say something like that to an atheist. Because sadly, they cant. -
This is how I feel about extremists. Not all religious people out there, though.
P.S. I know exactly what a butterfly is. -
Only the extremists
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tongue AdvancedI'm not gonna lie, I generally believe atheists are more intelligent than theists as a whole. But it is kind of unfair to write off all people who believe in God as schmucks.
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Thnx Leah :)
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And also is fighting and calling eachother names over religion really worth it? There either is a god or their isn't. Whatever religion you are you can ALWAYS show respect to someone who isn't you religion.
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That's all I got to say.
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@appay, you know what a butterfly is because of science. That's the point. That we learned about them and how they work because of science.
@tongue I agree with you on the intelegence thing. And as for writing off the entire group, all stereotypes are based off some truth. So I'll hope for the best but expect the worst.
@kiki, I get the feeling that it was more of a challenge. A, "Look at yourself." kind of taunt. When you read it, did you look at yourself? When I read it I remembered back at when I used to be Christian and I personally felt ashamed. Or are you closing yourself off from your own judgement? -
And that's my point, that you can still use science and things and not be completely nonreligious.
Earlier I said the extremists are the ones who are in need of criticism, this still applies, here. -
...Really? What do you hope to gain by being rudely outgoing?
I honestly don't see why you felt the need to take a dump all over religion like that. Religion is HOPE, plain and simple. Maybe not for you, but for others, it's a simpler way to cope.
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tongue AdvancedWell said, Nikki. I have several friends who are religious, and I would never take that from them because it would fundamentally change them, and probably not in a good way.
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