This Has to Stop

[Astonished]

Hating other people that hold a different view will probably only confirm prejudices on both sides. I'm a Christian and for years refused to look at opposing views. Recently I have started watching videos by Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, and a few others and it has been both eye-opening and challenging (in a positive sense). So far I have not seen them attacking the holders of certain beliefs but rather the beliefs themselves. Clearly, these men have a superior intellect to mine - but they don't attack or hate others for not being as clever as they so obviously are. Hating religious people will probably only confirm them in their belief system.

The ideology is poisonous and maintaining and spreading it is pretty much evil regardless of intent or opinion on it. It can't be ignored. So there comes a point where separating the ideology from its agents is not feasible. There's just different levels of both motivation and means. So someone like Ken Ham is a far greater concern than yourself or CL but the two of you are still, whether unwittingly or not, contributing to something that has historically been doing nothing but harm to humanity and still does to this day in more ways than previously. Imagine if the entire world was awakened to the reality of the falsehood of faith; the Vatican would finally pay for their crimes and the money they've hoarded can be seized and put into humanitarian aid instead of squandered on the wretched scam it all is, among other things that would actually help. Every day you refuse to get on board with that is one more raped kid because someone in a position of ill-gotten power isn't being kept from them, as far as I'm concerned.