RE: Need a hand
January 1, 2011 at 9:26 am
(This post was last modified: January 1, 2011 at 9:33 am by downbeatplumb.)
(December 31, 2010 at 5:06 pm)Reese Wrote: I read Hitchen's "God is Not Great" and I couldn't keep reading. Yeah yeah, we know why religion is BAD, but why is the lack of religion good? The guy is a moronic alcoholic, and appears to always will be.
Religions are bad because:
1: They purport to have all the answers. If you look at the dark ages in Europe when everyone was deeply religious society stagnated. It the answer to anything is 'god did it' then there is no need to look further.
2: By invoking a 'higher power' they can make good people do bad things.
3: By setting out rather odd laws they lead to overcontrolling, punitive theocracies (see Iran, Iraq, Europe in the middle ages etc).
4: They are used as tools to dominate and control the masses.
5: They, by their nature artificially divide societies (look at sunni and shia muslims and nortern ireland).
6: They amplify insanity, google 'god made me kill' and see how many hits you get.
7: They are intrusive. They like to inflict their 'morals' on everybody else. Their views on homosexuality are aprticularly abhorant.
8: They are all very, very annoying.
Without religion you would not have all of the above.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
