Religions and Heresy
October 2, 2013 at 10:26 pm
(This post was last modified: October 2, 2013 at 10:29 pm by Michael Schubert.)
Have you ever been to a church. I noticed that most churches I noticed with most churches, you have to belong to the certain denomination in order to participate in the rituals. Not only that, but parents often forbid their children from socializing with chridren from other churches, and will also often forbid them from marrying people from other churches.
Like political parties, religions often divide people into good and bad categories. This is precisely Pat Robertson views atheists as people of the devil, and why Ann Coulter says Muslims should be banned from airlines and instead take a flying carpet to wherever they need to go. Psychologist Darrell Ray writes in his masterful book, The God Virus:
A great deal of religious literature is a response to heresy. Most reiligions claim their literature was handed down by a god, but the god seems to be very concerned with all the heresies of the particular day and time when the scriputres were written. Reading the religious literature of any period in history is a study in the religious protection strategy of the day.
This is the reason I hate most religions: They hold this attitude that "you're with my church or you're against it". Religious people want to partition themselves off into a group where everyone in that group is good and everyone outside of that group is bad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE9MixcRO...E&index=19
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXuD8IFjR...r7&index=4
But do atheists act like this, too? Yeah, probably. A bigot is a bigot, whether they are religious bigots or atheist bigots. So maybe I'm picking on religious people too much.
Like political parties, religions often divide people into good and bad categories. This is precisely Pat Robertson views atheists as people of the devil, and why Ann Coulter says Muslims should be banned from airlines and instead take a flying carpet to wherever they need to go. Psychologist Darrell Ray writes in his masterful book, The God Virus:
A great deal of religious literature is a response to heresy. Most reiligions claim their literature was handed down by a god, but the god seems to be very concerned with all the heresies of the particular day and time when the scriputres were written. Reading the religious literature of any period in history is a study in the religious protection strategy of the day.
This is the reason I hate most religions: They hold this attitude that "you're with my church or you're against it". Religious people want to partition themselves off into a group where everyone in that group is good and everyone outside of that group is bad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE9MixcRO...E&index=19
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXuD8IFjR...r7&index=4
But do atheists act like this, too? Yeah, probably. A bigot is a bigot, whether they are religious bigots or atheist bigots. So maybe I'm picking on religious people too much.
