Six die because church says STOP HIV treatment

[Creed of Heresy]

I can't believe the amount of you people sitting here saying these people deserved to die.

No, I'm serious, you lot sound just as fucking despicable as the pastors and bishops you all rail against and claim to be morally superior to. >:|

Have you guys taken a look around, lately? Have you noticed something about religions? Have you noticed their numbers swell not with of those of sound mind, but rather, by people who are VULNERABLE? Have you never noticed that people in a state of mental or emotional distress turn to religions because religions offer them false promises and false hope? Is it not true that people who lose loved ones, who receive sudden declaration of the shortening of their lives, of those who suffer all forms of emotional trauma turn to religion in desperation for hope, for something to cling to because they likely have nothing else? Is it not true that religions, all of them but ESPECIALLY christianity, prey [or pray?] upon this constantly? That its very design is meant to appeal to the inevitable emotional trauma that people will suffer, that it preys upon the fears and despair of people when they are laid their lowest? That living a life with AIDs, a disease that is definitive early, sickly death both physically and socially [physically later, but socially permanently during your now greatly-shortened lifespan], might be extremely weakening to someone's emotional health and that clearly these poor bastards became victims of a bunch of scam artists and liars?

And you people are saying THEY DESERVE THIS?

What the fucking fuck, people. What. The. Fuck. Is wrong with you guys. Sudden I feel as revolted towards to you just as much as I am by the evangelical predators who led these people to an even earlier death...BECAUSE YOUR MORAL COMPASS IS JUST AS FUCKED UP AS THEIRS IS.

I'm sure I'll get over that feeling eventually, but...just...

WOW.

Perhaps you're correct. If someone shot themselves, I would assume it was because they had deep-seated emotional problems, not because they they deserved it. I rescind my earlier statement. (Btw, have you ever known a religious person to admit they were wrong? See, we're not as f****d up as them. )

Yes. Yes I have. I'm one of them. That's largely why I'm an atheist these days. Most of the people on this site, if not all of them, were religious at one point, in one way or another. Very few people here were raised as atheists. We BECOME that, for the most part, because we realize, we were wrong in our beliefs, and we change. If someone shoots themselves, yeah, they're not going to do it because they were sitting there going "you know what I really deserve? A bullet to the head!" XD If that sort of thing actually happened, there'd a LOT less morally bankrupt individuals in the world...and there CERTAINLY wouldn't be no fucking Joseph Kony or George Bush or Hitler...although, Hitler DID kill himself but...heh, that was because he was facing the Russians [who were piiiiiisssssed at him].

Also I apologize for being so...I dunno, outraged, I suppose, with my statement, but...we atheists are quick to dismiss religious individuals killing themselves as "social Darwinism" [a concept that has been disproven many many MANY times over not just by individual behavior but also by armies of psychologists, paleontologists, geneticists, and neurologists], as opposed to the individuals being victims of the monolithic religions that seduced them with their lies and false promises. We must always remember; believers are just atheists waiting for the rational-minded to guide them down the path of reason and self-sufficience.

Also; props for flexibility in sentiment.