I mean no offense to any of you who are religious and the following post is not meant to offend you.
Religion is why the world is so Fucked Up
/I mean no offense to any of you who are religious and the following post is not meant to offend you.
See, one sign that organized religion
(and I stress ORGANIZED religion vs. religion that gives the individual hope and faith) is fucking up the world is that you have to apologize for voicing that statement. Why are you afraid, because you might offend someone? That said someone might come and kick your door down because you don't agree with him?
I know you're not actually afraid, but I'm fucking tired of seeing Muslim extremists burn down embassies over the slightest little perceived offense.
I'm sick of religious fearmongers capturing the imagination of politicians and pandering syncophants all over the world and blocking all sorts of progress.
I hate seeing rationality and science being torn down and forced to bow at the altar of differing, perceived morality, driven by fear, styming the sort of scientific progress that has propelled mankind forward and onward toward its present state.
I can't stand the fact that people like Blind_Io's father had to die because some religious **** decided to ban stem cell research because they thought that the potential benefits weren't enough to overcome ancient fears and prejudices because they're too goddamn close-minded to study the facts.
I hate how our government isn't capable of rational thought and denying gay couples the same rights as straights, even though they love each other even more than those stuck in shallow, passionless shams of a marriage ceremony that was once upheld by the very sanctity of the church that intrudes upon the state.
Most importantly, I'm exasperated from seeing Fred Phelps still existing as a living, breathing, human being. Why hasn't anybody done the common thing and blown his entire "Baptist Church" with a homemade bomb, with the same amount of hatred that he preaches?
Why do the innocent always die yet the demons still live?
The Catholic Church is the paradigm of this, and these farcical rules will be forgotten in less than a month, a mere interesting footnote in its Wikipedia entry, a curiosity in an attempt for the world's wealthiest organization to regain its dwindling membership.
Organized religion brings out the worst in the masses and mob mentality; hell, just see how pissed
I am when I wrote this!