The Real Evil Of Religion.

[_Ray A]

It causes more people to become atheist than the worst dictatorships, crimes, and natural disasters in all of human history. Religion has been a sort of insurance policy that there is no God. Because if "God" is so twisted, devious and hypocritical as to "ordain as a prophet" a man who would ask his male followers to “F” their wives, then I don't blame anyone for believing that God doesn't exist.

I would be atheist myself if I didn't see beyond this con. Religions present a God who is totally foreign to me. Glorified male APES pretending to speak for God.



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[_Gadianton Plumber]

It causes more people to become atheist than the worst dictatorships, crimes, and natural disasters in all of human history. Religion has been a sort of insurance policy that there is no God. Because if "God" is so twisted, devious and hypocritical as to "ordain as a prophet" a man who would ask his male followers to f*** their wives, then I don't blame anyone for believing that God doesn't exist.

I would be atheist myself if I didn't see beyond this con. Religions present a God who is totally foreign to me. Glorified male APES pretending to speak for God.



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What is hang fired bad about being an atheist? I guess I fell for the "con" after leaving the church and I feel fine!

[_Some Schmo]

It causes more people to become atheist than the worst dictatorships, crimes, and natural disasters in all of human history. Religion has been a sort of insurance policy that there is no God. Because if "God" is so twisted, devious and hypocritical as to "ordain as a prophet" a man who would ask his male followers to f*** their wives, then I don't blame anyone for believing that God doesn't exist.

I would be atheist myself if I didn't see beyond this con. Religions present a God who is totally foreign to me. Glorified male APES pretending to speak for God.



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I would consider this to be a good thing about religion (if it were true that it caused people to become atheists - I think it may in a few cases, but I don't think it's the norm).

I was agnostic for many years after leaving the church. I just didn't think you could prove it either way, and it took a long time to let the idea go. But slowly, I realized that just because I couldn't prove he didn't exist was a good reason to give the idea any more credence than fairies or ghosts or anything else supernatural.

I'd love it if there were a loving god; I'd love to believe that there's more life after this one, but that's my heart talking, not my head. I try very hard not to give in to wishful thinking when assessing what's real and what isn't.

[_Yoda]

But Schmo, listening to our hearts is what makes us human. Why do you love your family? What is love? Is love your head...or your heart talking?

[_Some Schmo]

But Schmo, listening to our hearts is what makes us human. Why do you love your family? What is love? Is love your head...or your heart talking?

Actually, I would suggest that listening to our hearts (which is to say, responding to our emotions) is a throwback to when we didn't have this large frontal lobe/cerebral cortex, and that listening to our head is what really sets us apart as humans.

But I'm not disputing that our hearts might have something to tell us; it's just that if there's a conflict between what my heart says and what my head says, I try to let my head win.

In the case of my family, there is no such conflict. Both my heart and my head tell me I love them.

But then, I believe that love is more a verb than a noun. Loving is doing things more than it's a feeling. It's easy to do stuff for someone when you feel great affection for them; it's when I do things for my family when I don't particularly feel loving that I'm being the most loving. And it's the doing of things for them that provide concrete empirical evidence that I love them.

;)

[_LifeOnaPlate]

[_Dr. Shades]

Most people don't admit it when they have no substantive argument, so kudos to you for your honesty, LifeOnaPlate.

[_TAK]

Most people don't admit it when they have no substantive argument, so kudos to you for your honesty, LifeOnaPlate.

Yup,
That pretty much sums up FARMs Dung ..

[_bcspace]

It causes more people to become atheist than the worst dictatorships, crimes, and natural disasters in all of human history.

You could be right. The scriptures teach this principle....

Matthew 13:18-23
2 Nephi 2:11

What is hang fired bad about being an atheist? I guess I fell for the "con" after leaving the church and I feel fine!

Your posters appear to erroneously suppose that religion and science can't mix.

[_Uncle Dale]

...
What is love?
...

One of the great forces of the Universe.

In fact, the primary phenomena of a Unified Field explanation
of existence -- if some genius can ever get around to stating it.

Or, maybe all we need to do is to gaze into the starry skies on a
moonless night -- or into a microscope at a drop of pond water.

If we were fish, Love would be the ocean we swim in.

Too bad that some people never experience that truth.

UD