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What's your biggest beef with religion?

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What's your biggest beef with religion?
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RE: What's your biggest beef with religion?
September 20, 2018 at 11:57 am
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RE: What's your biggest beef with religion?
September 21, 2018 at 10:02 am
How they all think they're morally superior when their morals are fucked up.
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RE: What's your biggest beef with religion?
September 21, 2018 at 10:47 am
(September 16, 2018 at 8:05 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: I'm sure most of us have multiple "beefs." But this thread isn't about those. Just about your biggest one. Theists encouraged to participate.

Mine: It's anti-intellectual. -- It discourages and disparages intellectual curiosity.

Three things, for me:
  • Indoctrinating kids.
  • Followers feeling entitled and compelled to force their views on others.
  • The kind of "cult-like" mentality and special pleading. What I mean is the idea that a person might recognized faulty logic used by cult followers or adherents of other religions, then completely excuse the same behavior with their own religion. I remember doing this exact thing when I was Christian, and it troubled me. I knew it was problematic, but I wasn't ready to let go, and I didn't have a better answer. I largely just stopped thinking about it.
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RE: What's your biggest beef with religion?
September 21, 2018 at 10:56 am
Religion provides refuge for know-it-alls.
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RE: What's your biggest beef with religion?
September 21, 2018 at 11:07 am (This post was last modified: September 21, 2018 at 11:08 am by brewer.)
(September 21, 2018 at 10:56 am)Thoreauvian Wrote: Religion provides refuge for know-it-alls.

Fuck, I might need to reconvert.

No, wait, I'll just join mensa.
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RE: What's your biggest beef with religion?
September 21, 2018 at 11:48 am
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RE: What's your biggest beef with religion?
September 21, 2018 at 11:56 am
Biggest beef?

Probably that whole 'denying reality as it really is' bit.
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RE: What's your biggest beef with religion?
September 21, 2018 at 12:07 pm
My biggest beef with religions is that they purport to be true when they aren't.



You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.

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RE: What's your biggest beef with religion?
September 21, 2018 at 7:49 pm
(September 21, 2018 at 10:02 am)Divinity Wrote: How they all think they're morally superior when their morals are fucked up.

I missed that one.

They feign outrage over the sexual pleasures of consenting adults while they burn such alive at the stake.

Honestly, I recognize now that the question the OP presents is invalid. It's not really possible to separate out the evils of religion and identify one as prime above all others. It's like asking to singulate the evils of getting run over by a truck. Does it suck more that it hurts that your body is crushed or that you're dead? Meaningless question.

Religion sucks - period.
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RE: What's your biggest beef with religion?
September 21, 2018 at 8:04 pm
Quote:They feign outrage over the sexual pleasures of consenting adults while they burn such alive at the stake.

Unless they are republicunts.  Then the bitch had it coming.
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