The Hitchens "Poison" thread.

[JuliaL]

Ok, I am going to try from now on to post stories about how religion creates human cruelty and stupidity in this thread.

Religions are very large living organisms.
Super-stupid, super-animals that will fight to survive.
If that fight requires the sacrifice of some components, so be it.
From the perspective of the super-organism, this is rational behavior. Like losing some T-cells to kill a cancer.
But it is the sub-units that suffer. They are self aware and the religion is not.
And I am against suffering.
Generally my suffering, but through empathy this includes others.