Religion's affect outside of religion

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On a side note Dripster, isn't it about time you got a new avatar. I was sat on a bus the other day, staring out the window and dreaming dirty naughty thoughts when a huge fucking sunflower appeared over the top of a fence and burned my eyes and made me think of you. I sicked in my mouth. Change it to a warthog or something, don't get many of them on my bus journey route.

That particular sunflower represented hope when I had none. It was light on my darkest day (they only bloom/look good for a day or two.) this one bloomed, and was taller than my house the size of a very large dinner plate, or a serving platter. On a day where I just wanted to say F-it all, it made me stop for a moment and admire it and the few dozen smaller ones growing around it. So I stopped and took a breath and a few pictures, and shared them with my wife (the one who planted them.)  It serves two purposes now (almost 10 years later) One, to remind me of the hope I need to bring here, to you all 'good people,' and two to give me hope again when things here get tough.

So, sorry if I messed up your bus ride, just wait a few more days and if the flower is allowed to goto seed it will get very heavy with sunflower seeds and begin to droop below that fence line.

Like I said, you will forever be stuck in a loop of rejecting logic and reason, and we can't give you a logical argument for why you should accept logic. Your thinking is that apparently God who made the entire universe apparently purposely left bad evidence, relies on anecdotal testimony, and languages that die out, and that this supreme being who wants everyone to follow him would not correct this mistake so that the people who actually want to follow him can do so without having to worry about whether or not he exists. And that somehow we have to trust this bad evidence even though we never believe anything based on bad evidence besides this, and if we don't accept this and refuse to question it we will be burned in eternal hell because your supreme lord didn't feel like using something other than a fucking book that has no physical or observable evidence and contains many contradictions.

I can understand why some are now classing religion as a mental disease. I wish I could be respectful, but you are crazy, and I can't think of any rational way to help you at this point. You are far too deluded.