RE: Why I Don't Want To Be An Atheist
October 21, 2016 at 3:34 am
(This post was last modified: October 21, 2016 at 3:37 am by Fake Messiah.)
(October 20, 2016 at 3:58 pm)ThePrick Wrote: 7.Because Atheists like abortion and I don’t
Religion is weaker in Europe where access to birth control and abortion is higher than in the rest of the world. Ironically, the abortion rate is far lower in Europe, as are teenage pregnancies. Many religions in the United States claim that they want to reduce abortions and teenage pregnancy, yet in areas where religion is strongest, the rates are far higher. Don’t be fooled by the religious words; if reduction in abortion or teen pregnancy were the goal, it could be achieved in a few years.
But since the only way to have religious people is to lie to little kids religions are highly threatened by low birthrates. That is why many of the Christians are so focused on the question of when life begins. Abortion and birth control limit the potential hosts to religion.
Therefore, their sermons will be about abstinence, self-control, the terrors of abortion, the scandal of the Plan B drug and the horror of giving birth control pills or condoms to teenagers. Abstinence-only programs, advocated for by American fundamentalists, are a miserable failure according to most research. Nevertheless, these programs have the effect of creating sufficient guilt and fear in children to keep them bonded to the religion.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
