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Does Anyone Else Hate Christianity Specifically?
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RE: Does Anyone Else Hate Christianity Specifically?
(July 23, 2014 at 9:33 pm)lezbehonest Wrote: I'll be honest, the only religion I know anything about is Christianity, and I detest it. The whole concept, along with every other religion, is completely ridiculous. Even if God is real, he's a fucking asshole.
I find religion not much different from any other grouping of myths or legends about a god or gods. It has its interesting points and can tell us something about the ancient people who wrote it, but it shouldn't have been treated as anything more than that. I don't know if I can hate religion; I live in NYC and it simply doesn't have enough of an impact on my day-to-day life to be something I care about most of the time, much less detest.

I am saddened by what it can do to people, and perhaps on occasion I might hate what it does to them. I was a Jehovah's Witness, and their policy of shunning former members has caused great pain and suffering to otherwise good and kind people. The fact that they follow this order out of a sincere belief that it is for the good of everyone involved is simply horrifying. Perhaps that is what I hate-- that religion has the capability to make good people do really awful things to one another, convinced that they've taken the best possible option.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."

-Stephen Jay Gould
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RE: Does Anyone Else Hate Christianity Specifically? - by Tonus - July 24, 2014 at 5:50 am

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