For me, being raised going to a catholic school it began with starting to notice even though religion talks a lot about kindness and everyone being equal the people i knew around me who were religious didnt act very kind.
The muslim people and the christian people around me would look down on one another and view each other as inferior, i once witnessed two of the more religious children at my school fighting each other about who was closer to god.
Next it was asking questions as a 8 or 9 year old like what about the dinosaurs and how the hell did noah get ALL the animals on the boat it would be impossible.
It was also around this time i began to fear heaven, the thought of being anywhere good or bad forever would get boring, as ive mentioned in another thread i think even being on a desert island populated with 1000 willing and eternally youthful women would get boring after a few million years.
Next i began to think ok religion looks ridiculous to me but i am just a young teenager and lots of older wiser people seem to believe in it.
But i remember at this time playing a game called civilisation call to power for the pc, and you get to control a civilisation and you progress by making scientific advances and one of the advances was religion and if you got it then you got to create a theocratic government which made your millitary stronger and if you built temples it made your people happier, you also got more money from using clerics to soothsay foriegn nations and it made me think just how much of a useful tool religion has been to governments and no wonder its agressively engrained in all societies.
And it shows in the progression of religion, there isnt a mainstream religion out there that has been divinely inspired, the religion has spread wherever the men and women of the religion have travelled, christians and muslims didnt travel to other nations across the ocean and realise god had also visited other far away lands aswell.
Anyway after these realisations i began to not care about religion again until i saw richard dawkins and christopher hitchens crush people in debates and it gave me as much of a rush as watching UFC fights,
and after watching ridiculous christian and muslim videos on youtube talking about how their religions are scientifically accurate, its mainly muslims who do this, which just makes my BLOOD BOIL!!! i saw it as my duty to put more research into these matters and debate muslims and christians wherever i can, unfortunately you cant really just go over to people in the street ask them their religion and start telling them they believe in bullshit, so i pretty much try and do it on forums.
The muslim people and the christian people around me would look down on one another and view each other as inferior, i once witnessed two of the more religious children at my school fighting each other about who was closer to god.
Next it was asking questions as a 8 or 9 year old like what about the dinosaurs and how the hell did noah get ALL the animals on the boat it would be impossible.
It was also around this time i began to fear heaven, the thought of being anywhere good or bad forever would get boring, as ive mentioned in another thread i think even being on a desert island populated with 1000 willing and eternally youthful women would get boring after a few million years.
Next i began to think ok religion looks ridiculous to me but i am just a young teenager and lots of older wiser people seem to believe in it.
But i remember at this time playing a game called civilisation call to power for the pc, and you get to control a civilisation and you progress by making scientific advances and one of the advances was religion and if you got it then you got to create a theocratic government which made your millitary stronger and if you built temples it made your people happier, you also got more money from using clerics to soothsay foriegn nations and it made me think just how much of a useful tool religion has been to governments and no wonder its agressively engrained in all societies.
And it shows in the progression of religion, there isnt a mainstream religion out there that has been divinely inspired, the religion has spread wherever the men and women of the religion have travelled, christians and muslims didnt travel to other nations across the ocean and realise god had also visited other far away lands aswell.
Anyway after these realisations i began to not care about religion again until i saw richard dawkins and christopher hitchens crush people in debates and it gave me as much of a rush as watching UFC fights,
and after watching ridiculous christian and muslim videos on youtube talking about how their religions are scientifically accurate, its mainly muslims who do this, which just makes my BLOOD BOIL!!! i saw it as my duty to put more research into these matters and debate muslims and christians wherever i can, unfortunately you cant really just go over to people in the street ask them their religion and start telling them they believe in bullshit, so i pretty much try and do it on forums.
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
Impersonation is treason.
