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by mharig 1138 days ago
That makes me stay apotheist.
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I would be, except for the fact that a religion like islam will cut off your head if you decide you don't believe in a god anymore. And christianity was like that as well, until the Western World secularized. With the ugly head of evangelicalism raising it's head, don't think that the USA couldn't backslide into a religious regression and start executing gay people or putting their own children to death if they disobey their parents, as the bible outlines that parents can do.

So yeah, I get your sentiment, but there are a whole lot of people out there who want the USA to go back to fundamentalism and have the church run the government, just like in Iran, except we will have a bunch of loathful evangelicals the power behind the presidency.

So personally, I think I have to fight religion at every point that I am able to fight. It's a war of ideas and ideas matter. Because ideas lead to actions.

Just sayin'.

Most humans seem to need religion. Fighting religion is therefore futile.

Better to fight extremism, and not only the religious type.

None of this is supposed to be more important than the way you handle your shopping cart.

Unless maybe you're not getting any kind of exercise at all or something like that.