Cool so we are on the same page for most things. I should have been more clear with the word militaristic though, it's the best word I can think of but, it doesn't fit perfectly.
I see religion as an overall bad thing, sure there are some good things but, everything does some good and the good things can be done without the indoctrination. So when I say that I am militaristic it's because I openly tell theists why I think their beleifs are dangerous and willfully ignorant of the world around them. I try to be fair but, on my end, they may as well beleive in Santa. Just a Santa that tells them to kill people/bomb abortion clinics/sit around praying instead of actually helping people.ect
That said I am not anti-theist, I do not hold it against the person if they are a theist. I have theist friends, have for some time. But, even in those friends all the predjudices they have, nearly every moral point we disagree on they follow because of their religion, not because they have any real experience.
Hope that clears it up, I'm just openly against religion.
While I'm here a little example story of why I hate christianity (one of the reasons) amoung other religions. In this case christianity though. While there are exeptions (and I'm pleased to know there are) the christian churches have this hate of homosexuals. One of my friends, a christian once admitted that on a survey he answered that he thought homosexuality should be illigal. I explained to him he may as well make being left handed illigal too, gay people can't choose it's the way their brains are wired. If there is a god, he made them that way. At first my friend thought I was joking, he could not see that it was a choice so, I showed him the research and news articles.
Point being, he was willing to support direct harm to people he new not one single damn thing about simply because his parents said god doesn't like these people. He was willing to hurt them, to supress an entire section of the population without knowing shit about anything.
And if your curious, when I tried to follow up, he dodges the subject. I doubt he learned anything, I suspect he asked his parents about it and they spouted some shit about scientists being satanists and it's just a lie to fool people away from god.
I see religion as an overall bad thing, sure there are some good things but, everything does some good and the good things can be done without the indoctrination. So when I say that I am militaristic it's because I openly tell theists why I think their beleifs are dangerous and willfully ignorant of the world around them. I try to be fair but, on my end, they may as well beleive in Santa. Just a Santa that tells them to kill people/bomb abortion clinics/sit around praying instead of actually helping people.ect
That said I am not anti-theist, I do not hold it against the person if they are a theist. I have theist friends, have for some time. But, even in those friends all the predjudices they have, nearly every moral point we disagree on they follow because of their religion, not because they have any real experience.
Hope that clears it up, I'm just openly against religion.
While I'm here a little example story of why I hate christianity (one of the reasons) amoung other religions. In this case christianity though. While there are exeptions (and I'm pleased to know there are) the christian churches have this hate of homosexuals. One of my friends, a christian once admitted that on a survey he answered that he thought homosexuality should be illigal. I explained to him he may as well make being left handed illigal too, gay people can't choose it's the way their brains are wired. If there is a god, he made them that way. At first my friend thought I was joking, he could not see that it was a choice so, I showed him the research and news articles.
Point being, he was willing to support direct harm to people he new not one single damn thing about simply because his parents said god doesn't like these people. He was willing to hurt them, to supress an entire section of the population without knowing shit about anything.
And if your curious, when I tried to follow up, he dodges the subject. I doubt he learned anything, I suspect he asked his parents about it and they spouted some shit about scientists being satanists and it's just a lie to fool people away from god.
