Grow the hell up

[innocent_lex]

I'm sick and tired of religious people - those who claim over and over and over to have ownership of morality and what's right, who claim that they're all about peace - threatening each other with violence over the smallest and most pointless bollocks. I'm coming down firmly on the side of utter disgust. I'm beginning to approve of Dara O'Briain's approach: stick 'em all in a sack and beat them with a stick.

And here I'm going to come out and say it, because it's my reality: nobody's invisible friend is any better than anyone else's invisible friend. The fact that people are claiming their invisible friends urge them to behave this way is no excuse at all. It's pathetic, it's horrifying, it's infantile and if this is what we've brought ourselves to as a species, then we're all fucking useless.

Grow up. Seriously. The amount of killing and maiming and torture and abuse that goes on in the name of 'truth' is fucking disgusting.

Also: the sack reference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RstwLzikmvA

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[captain-tiv.livejournal.com]

AMEN! :)

I gave up on religion a long time ago. Whether it's a multi-billion dollar recognized religion or a cult, there are too many con artists and fear mongers involved.

That parochial school I went to was a real eye opener. I bought what they told me for a long time then I had my epiphany one day when the preacher made an insult. That was like BOOM! All those lies they told me unraveled at that particular moment for me. Now, I look around at so much of the nonsense going on, and I want to scream. I hear it, and I can actually feel the hairs on the back of my neck stand up on end. And people believe this stuff!

Too many churches are hate factories. They teach you to hate everybody else for doing what they do themselves. Mom goes to a fundamentalist baptist church and she doesn't see it even when I point out what the preacher said. She just ignores it, but she understands why I don't go and doesn't ask me to go anymore. Take her Sunday School teacher -- he says when he sees Jehovah's Witnesses going door to door to tell people about God, he goes insides, locks his door and doesn't answer when they ring because he says their beliefs are heretical and he doesn't want to run the risk of damning his soul (although in the next breath he says he couldn't be any more saved now than he was the day he got saved :: headdesk ::). Now, what do these baptists do? They go door to door trying to tell people about God, but they call it "soul winning," and since they're baptists, they're not heretical like the Jehovah's Witnesses. Mom never saw the irony in that until I mentioned it to her.

Besides being a hate factory, it's a load of hypocrisy. Boy, could I tell some stories about the nonsense I grew up with. It's all a con job and a shell game. Oh, and they don't want you to question. They don't want you to think. They want you to just accept and believe without doubt that they're absolutely 100% right and everybody else is wrong.

And the worst part about all this? It's in every religion on the planet, I'd say. I agree with you 100%. Let's stick 'em in a sack.

[amymccabe.livejournal.com]

Yeah. My mother's side is pretty fundamentalist Christian too. For a bunch of people that calm to follow a guy/God that hung out with lepers and prostitutes and extolled the virtues of not judging people and loving all people, they're pretty quick to damn and what nothing to do with homosexuals, bisexuals, people with conflicting political beliefs, people of other religions, etc...

[captain-tiv.livejournal.com]

Gandhi said it best -- I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

[innocent-lex.livejournal.com]

Your tales of school range from horrifying to how-is-it-possible-to-believe-this-stuff awful. And you're right, it does appear to be every religion.

[captain-tiv.livejournal.com]

They use the old guilt trip of "you'll go to hell if you don't believe 100%" or "it's sinful to question what we say." They use it on little kids who have no defenses because they're not old enough to realize that it's opinion and not fact. Then when these kids grow up, they feel absolutely guilty to even question what they were told. It's a scary bit of brainwashing.