(February 8, 2015 at 12:26 pm)robvalue Wrote: Let's call it all religious terrorism. Terrorism in the name of fairy tales. War on reality.
I've gotten blasted on another page for agreeing with Hitchens title of his book "God Is Not Great, How religion poisons everything".
The problem isn't our species ability to be compassionate, our species problem is the poison of our flawed evolution in that our gap filling leads to religion itself.
Now the way I have described it is this. You don't call it poison because you hate religious people, or human rights. You call it poison just like Nadar said back in the 60s and 70s that cars were unsafe. And even cars today, are still dangerous because the operators can ignore their bad habits in driving and or use their car aggressively out of a selfish sense of entitlement.
The other analogy of religion I have used is to treat ALL religions like volcanos. Some are currently less active or dormant, and others are more active and or exploding. Now just like a volcano, you cant get rid of religion, but you have to constantly be aware of it's dark side to minimize an eruption.
I don't hate all 7 billion of my fellow humans. I do hate however, the bad logic of what causes religion to exist in the first place. The only thing that is reasonable is to insist on a safety belt and air bags and speed limits through common law and government neutrality, and the ability to challenge both scientific absurdity and morally bad acts by any one religious individual or a group.
