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[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

You are an evil person, generalizing all religious people. Religion isn't a mental illness. Atheism is. Just wait until you die and stand before God.

So, it's evil when I say it, but it's good when you do. That sounds about on-brand for religious hypocrisy.

Do you even think about these things before you vomit them up?

Despite my repeated requests for believers to justify the existence of their god(s), the best you have is "I'm going to report you to my imaginary manager, who'll deal with you when you're not around." Thanks, Karen.

What you're telling me is that you can't. You can't show me your god, and more devastatingly, you have no reason to believe in it yourself. If I can't know until after I'm dead, you can't either, and your assertion and belief in it is inherently unjustified.

Your god's displeasure at my lack of belief in his existence is between him and me, just like Zeus' displeasure at your lack of belief in his existence is between you and him. So why does this have anything to do with you? Why are you in my inbox sending me threats? Why is your god so feeble or so non-existent that he can't get things done without you? Or, why do you think so little of him that you feel you need to step in and fix his great cosmic plan?

Not only that, but you're not really making a very good case against the generalization you claim to object to, since you're doing the classic Xian trope of threatening people with fire and torture. I literally have a tag for that. You're doing the stereotype right here and now, but the problem is me? How does that make sense? Don't claim you don't want to be treated as a cliche, and then go and behave like a cliche. The same kind of Xian who insists that their religion is about love, not fear or hate, will also send you threats of torture.

If a loving, all-knowing god exists, then I'm pretty sure you've pissed him off more than me, since I never threatened anyone with violence, I just explained my lack of belief in the unbelievable. But you certainly did.

Thanks for demonstrating the damage your religion does to people's mentality and morality. You really undermined your claim that it's not a mental illness, didn't you? "Religion isn't a mental illness, and me psychopathically looking forward to your eternal torture and suffering proves how good and mentally healthy I am." And this makes sense and feels good to you.

I'd really rather not end up any place you are, anyway. That really would be torture.

Your religion needs new salespeople. No wonder people are leaving in droves.

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[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

“The common idea of claiming ‘color blindness’ is akin to the notion of being 'not racist'—as with the 'not racist,’ the color-blind individual, by ostensibly failing to see race, fails to see racism and falls into racist passivity. The language of color blindness—like the language of ‘not racist’—is a mask to hide racism.”

– Ibram X. Kendi, “How to Be an Antiracist”

“But if racism is embedded in our thought processes and social structures as deeply as many crits believe, then the ‘ordinary business’ of society—the routines, practices, and institutions that we rely on to do the world’s work—will keep minorities in subordinate positions. Only aggressive, color-conscious efforts to change the way things are will do much to ameliorate misery.”

– Delgado/Stefancic, “Critical Race Theory (Third Edition)”

Modern “antiracism” is just racism.

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

“Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge. It is a bulwark against mysticism, against superstition, against religion misapplied to where it has no business being.”

– Carl Sagan

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

You now understand everything you need to know about Xianity.

[truthforislam]

Hell is separation from God. And God is the source of life, peace, joy, and wellness. He’s not a crazy man forcing you to love Him. If you say no, very well. You’ll have your wish, and have no one to blame but yourself. God’s not forcing you into hell, you’re jumping in of your own free will.

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

This is an excellent demonstration of the immorality of the Xian belief system, and the fallacies, mental gymnastics, abuse and gaslighting upon which it is built.

Hell is separation from God. 

Prove it.

Also, that’s all I ever wanted want. Freedom from your stupid god myths.

And God is the source of life, peace, joy, and wellness.

No. Not only have “life, peace, joy, and wellness” been found in cultures that have never heard of your god, but belief in your god has spawned centuries of human misery and bloodshed. Human culture is becoming more peaceful, more joyous, more well… ful, as religiosity decreases. Human life expectancy, quality of life and freedom are explicitly correlated with a decline in religiosity.

So, no. Your god’s own book describes is rampage of genocide and death and destruction and misery, either commanded by it or perpetrated by it directly. That’s why Xians hurriedly skim over the Old Testament as if it never happened (well, it didn’t, but, you know).

He’s not a crazy man forcing you to love Him.

Sure he is. In fact, as we’ll see in a moment, it’s literally the only thing he does care about.

He created the rules of how we are (purportedly) judged, he came up with the two extreme outcomes, didn’t put in any gradation, and offers both the rescue and the threat. Like any extortionist. 

If you say no, very well. You’ll have your wish, and have no one to blame but yourself.

When the mafia boss offers you the option of paying up, if you say “no”, very well, you have your wish to have your knees broken, and have no one to blame but yourself.

That’s your god. Your god is the same as a mafia boss. Your god makes the exact same threat/offer as a mafia boss. Your god is a mafia boss. Luckily, it’s an imaginary mafia boss.

Despite the mafia boss creating this dilemma in the first place. A dilemma which is designed merely to bestow your god with more and more applause.

A perfect thing needs nothing. Your god who punishes for failing to fill its need for applause is on imperfect god. A god that was worthy of praise wouldn’t need it. A god that needed it wouldn’t be worthy of it. 

The entire threat is worship and applaud and praise and extoll me, or be punished. One does not even need to be moral or good, as long as, like the mafia, you’re its buddy.

Matthew 12:31-32

Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men.

And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come.

Or in other words, you can do anything you like as long as you’re mobbed up.

free will

You people say this, and yet let’s not be intellectually dishonest here.

As we’ve already seen, your god doesn’t care about anything in the human realm. it will forgive literally any act, not matter how barbarous, committed against humans. Indeed, it offers to forgive you without you ever having to seek forgiveness from the one you harmed.

The only thing that is unforgivable is not worshipping it. Literally, the only thing. It cares about nothing else.

Now, lets try something. Use your free will to sincerely believe that Kaheless is the way to Sto-vo-kor. Use your free will to sincerely embrace the way of the warrior. Use your free will to sincerely reject the cowardice that will send you to Gre’thor on the Barge of the Dead.

Go on. Just for a few minutes. Use your free will. I dare you.

This is just a buzzword. You can’t demonstrate it, nor justify how you use it. It’s dishonest. I could no more use my free will to bring myself to believe that your silly god is real than you could use yours to believe in Kahless, the Easter Bunny or a cabal of cats conspiring to steal all of Earth’s laser pointers.

It is not my free will that is the problem. It’s the validity of your claim. You’re trying to make your failure to justify your god claim into my failing. I’m not so gullible as that. You cannot justify the existence of your god, and instead of considering why, you pretend it’s a “free will” issue. It’s not. It’s that your god is a myth that you hold only by faith.

My non-belief is the fault of your god, for refusing to exist. Or at least, demonstrate its existence – without absurd platitudes like “look around you!!” that work for any god or any other creation myth.

You have to be saved from your own god. A religion which is based on the fear of what that god will do. A fear-based religion. Because, let’s be honest here: you’re trying to save me from your god.

One of the most common things I ever hear from apostates is that even when they stop believing these silly god myths, they still retain a terror of hell, even though they don’t believe it even exists. It’s one of the abuses of your religion that takes the longest to get over.

Your religion is based on fear. It is a fear-based belief falsely masquerading as loving. 

you have no one to blame but yourself.

I wonder how many abused children still have that still ringing in their ears: “look what you made me do to you.” That’s the same thing as what you just said. You just repeated the rationalization of an abuser.

Your god is an abusive parent. It’s time to reconsider your morality.

Your god created everything. So your god created this perverted system. It created the threat, and it created the resolution. There is no part of it that your god is not entirely responsible for. Saying that “you have no one to blame” is literally a lie. You’re casting your god of all power as a god of no responsibility. It can create a system and take no responsibility for its outcome.

Your god is in charge of the universe, everything in it and its functioning, and yet it’s the human who made the god do something? Have you ever actually thought about this?

What you’re actually saying is that your god is incompetent. It cannot be held accountable, because it’s incapable of responsibility, and that responsibility must be shouldered by others who are capable of it. To others who had no hand in the choices your god made, the actions it took. You’re saying that humans are a superior being, because they can shoulder that responsibility, while your deficient god cannot.

You’ve infantalized your own god.

And done so in possibly the most profoundly immoral way. I can’t believe how corrupt and immoral your belief system is. How corrupted and perverted your own moral compass is that you think punishment

God’s not forcing you into hell,

Sure he is.

John 12:40

He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.

2 Thessalonians 2:11-12

And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:

That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

1 Peter 1:2

Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.

Saying the bible is wrong is a bold move. Especially given it’s the only source of your fandom’s mythology.

But if you’re determined to insist the bible is wrong, well, okay.

you’re jumping in of your own free will.

Didn’t you say that hell was merely separation from your god? What am I “jumping in” to? You said that your god is merely going to deny me its presence. Okay, so how I already perceive the world. How am I “jumping in” to your god not being anywhere? This doesn’t even make any sense. (I suspect you’ve accidentally reverted to the lava and fire version of hell you denied.)

If it doesn’t concern you that the hells of other religions are separation from their gods, why should I be concerned about separation from yours?

In any event, I choose neither. I choose not to participate or jump anywhere. I choose to notice that the gun your god holds to my head, and the hand holding it are both imaginary.

Now what? Either I have free will, or you’re lying.

Which is to say, you’re lying for an imaginary psychotic, extortionist blood-god. Because if there is a default for non-participation, then you already know your god is the one responsible, the mafia boss holding the gun. You kind of can’t get away from that.

Defending evil and immorality associates you with that evil and immorality.

Make better choices.

If your god exists and is loving and just, then I have nothing to worry about. It will be above such human vanities as applause, more just than eternal punishment for temporal slights, more sophisticated than two extreme outcomes, and beyond needing my belief in order to justify its own existence.

“Only a Christian could think it’s dangerous to not believe in an ‘all loving’ god.”

– MrOzAtheist

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

The resurrection never appeared in the Gospel of Mark until it was added, well after it was originally written, by a different author.

Either the gospels are supposed to be regarded as historical but are a lie, or are supposed to be allegorical and therefore a pointless myth.

One way or another, the resurrection is false, and therefore, so is Xianity.

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[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

Idea: Pass an Anti-Racist Constitutional Amendment

“To fix the original sin of racism, Americans should pass an anti-racist amendment to the U.S. Constitution that enshrines two guiding antiracist principals,” writes Ibram X. Kendi.

To fix the original sin of racism, Americans should pass an anti-racist amendment to the U.S. Constitution that enshrines two guiding anti-racist principals: Racial inequity is evidence of racist policy and the different racial groups are equals. The amendment would make unconstitutional racial inequity over a certain threshold, as well as racist ideas by public officials (with “racist ideas” and “public official” clearly defined). It would establish and permanently fund the Department of Anti-racism (DOA) comprised of formally trained experts on racism and no political appointees. The DOA would be responsible for preclearing all local, state and federal public policies to ensure they won’t yield racial inequity, monitor those policies, investigate private racist policies when racial inequity surfaces, and monitor public officials for expressions of racist ideas. The DOA would be empowered with disciplinary tools to wield over and against policymakers and public officials who do not voluntarily change their racist policy and ideas.

Kendi wants his authoritarian ideology to be written into the U.S. Constitution and granted the power to override any law based on the principles therein (e.g. separation of church and state, neutral laws, freedom of speech), based on explicitly illiberal principles, using definitions defined by him - e.g. “equity” (equal outcomes, discrimination to adjust shares) in place of equality (equal opportunity, equal treatment); his definition of “racism”, i.e. anyone who is not actively “antiracist” (again, his definition), since it’s not possible to be “not-racist” - and with punitive powers to be held over the heads of all policymakers who might disagree with the dictates of his ideology, regardless of their intentions.

“A racist policy is any measure that produces or sustains racial inequity between racial groups. An antiracist policy is any measure that produces or sustains racial equity between racial groups. By policy, I mean written and unwritten laws, rules, procedures, processes, regulations, and guidelines that govern people. There is no such thing as a nonracist or race-neutral policy. Every policy in every institution in every community in every nation is producing or sustaining either racial inequity or equity between racial groups.”

Essentially, he wants to make the U.S. a Woke Theocracy, governed by Woke Sharia, with himself in the role of the Prophet.

Even if we dismiss this as simply a mental exercise, it reveals his thought process and ambitions.

Believe them when they tell you what they’re up to.

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

You… you didn’t know?

[nietzschetoldthetruth]

Biology is what organic matter is made up, NOT what made the organic matter

Cosmology is the study of the cosmos NOT what made the cosmos

Genetics is what we’re made of. NOT what made us.

Statistics are prone to error and human made

Physics explain motion and such, NOT what created those molecules and movements

Geology does not disapprove Noah’s flood, in China there was a massive flood in the BC era. Geology studies the earth and rocks, NOT what created the earth and rocks

Neurology does not disapprove the soul as the soul is what makes you, you. It’s reincarnated and ever lasting.

Anthropology is the study of human movement throughout history, NOT what made those humans.

There are things we humans cannot explain, don’t just say “well science” science cannot explain everything. There is ZERO harm in believing in a God. So why not just do so?

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

“Theology is the study of superstitious myths associated with creator gods, NOT what made those gods.”

What, precisely made your god? This is the long-debunked Argument from First Cause. If your god doesn’t need to be created, why on Earth do you think everything else does? What you’re ascribing to an unproved “god” - whose properties you can’t even validate, let alone the specific attribute of “existent” - can be applied to a universe we know to be there just as easily and with an increase in intellectual fidelity. To claim an exemption to things needing creators would be the Special Pleading fallacy.

What existent materials did your god made everything out of? If the materials didn’t exist, then you’re describing “something from nothing.” If they did exist, then they always existed. Take your pick, because neither works out well for you.

Why is your god so incompetent that it would create humanity with so many biological flaws? And why is it so limited that it can only create life on the only planet in our solar system most likely for life to arise anyway? A truly powerful creator god could create life on Mercury or Pluto as easily as on Earth. Why is your god so weak as to require Easy Mode?

https://religion-is-a-mental-illness.tumblr.com/tagged/design-flaws

Making these assertions doesn’t prove any of them. It is upon you to demonstrate them, not for science - or me - to disprove what you have failed to prove. Prove your god. Prove it with evidence. Prove it without “faith” and without weak, fallacious, long-debunked apologetics.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Category:Existence_of_gods

For reference, that unfalsifiable proposals cannot be disproved also means they cannot be proved. Things when examined can either be evaluated to be true or not-true. So saying that “you can’t prove me wrong” simply says it cannot be evaluated at all, and is an indictment on your case.

There are things we humans cannot explain, don’t just say “well science” science cannot explain everything. There is ZERO harm in believing in a God. So why not just do so?

There is ZERO harm in believing an invisible unicorn lives in my garage. So why not just do so? When I ask for the city to make laws that will protect the feelings of my unicorn - he’s sensitive to loud sounds - then what could be the harm in that? The neighbors on opposite sides of my house disagree on whether my invisible unicorn is purple or pink, and have armed themselves over this argument. There’s ZERO harm in this. My sister brings her children over to absorb my unicorn’s aura, instead of taking them to the doctor. There’s ZERO harm in this.

Why not just believe in ghosts and goblins and fairies and Bigfoot and aliens and fairies and bunyips and banshees and a teapot orbiting between Earth and Mars? Why not believe everything you’re told until it’s disproved? Especially when you’re told that they’re they most existentially important things, such as the risk to your afterlife in Sto-vo-kor if you don’t follow the way of Kahless?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_teapot

How about we give this a go. I’ll pick a thing, and you just believe it. There’s ZERO harm, so why not just do so?

Are you ready?

Um….. traffic light fairies! Go!

How’d that work out?

Because it’s intellectually lazy and dishonest? It explains literally nothing and prevents you looking for real answers. There are people who actually have the curiosity and persistence to spend their lives learning about the universe in a methodical, worthwhile way. “Goddunit” prevents any further investigation. There is nowhere to go.

Science is a method, not a “thing.” You don’t appear to understand this, and yet still benefit from all the technology, medicine, clean water, comfortable lifestyle with a life expectancy that has been doubled in the last few hundred years. It’s a rather arrogant hypocrisy to rail against the science that gives you the ability ignorantly rail against science on a worldwide stage.

Science is a process for allowing ideas to be proposed, but declined from being regarded as “true” until a rigorous process of hostile examination has tried to test and falsify (disprove) those ideas, demonstrate accurate explanatory and predictive power (i.e. they actually explain something), eliminate subjective biases and bad reasoning, and even then hold them provisionally true, in case they might be subsumed into a larger idea, or a later falsification arises. Which part of this rigorous desire for truth do you find unacceptable?

You cannot claim to solve a mystery by invoking an even greater mystery. You haven’t solved or explained anything.

Lightning could not be explained. Now we can, and it wasn’t your god. Earthquakes could not be explained. Now we can, and it wasn’t your god. Every time we figure something out, it wasn’t your god. You’re backing the losing horse here.

This is nothing but the Argument from Ignorance, the very worst of bad, fallacious reasons to believe anything.

Your god does not win just because you’re incurious, because you don’t understand science.

The existence of your god is upon you to prove, not simply assert that science doesn’t have perfect answers and perfect evidence. Especially when your “solution” provides no answers, and is offered with no evidence at all.

So why not just do so?

Pascal’s Wager: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Pascal’s_Wager

Isn’t “because it hasn’t been shown to be true” not enough? Seriously, why is it that being actually true is not a higher priority?

Does it even matter which god? Ra? Quetzalcoatl? Kahless? Are the results in any way distinguishable? Doesn’t every religion claim to be the Truth™ and get results bestowed upon them by their respective god(s)?

No harm, eh? Belief in a god has death toll. Of course there’s no harm, if you can’t value human life.

http://whatstheharm.net

http://whatstheharm.net/faithhealing.html

https://www.thereligionofpeace.com

https://religion-is-a-mental-illness.tumblr.com/tagged/what’s-the-harm

https://religion-is-a-mental-illness.tumblr.com/tagged/victims-of-religion

https://plus.google.com/collection/MCl9FB

https://hornet.com/stories/gay-marriage-bans-two/

https://www.hrc.org/resources/the-lies-and-dangers-of-reparative-therapy

https://rewire.news/ablc/2018/07/27/christian-law-firm-asks-supreme-court-to-allow-workplace-discrimination-against-transgender-people/

http://www.mtv.com/news/2685536/conversion-therapy-killing-lgbt-youth-therapeutic-fraud-prevention-act/

https://religion-is-a-mental-illness.tumblr.com/tagged/molestation-coverup

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/freethoughtnow/pa-abuse-report/

https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2018/08/15/here-are-the-worst-abuses-by-catholic-priests-from-the-pa-grand-jurys-report/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/25/report-details-sexual-abuse-german-catholic-church

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2018/02/183-coffins-idaho-children-killed-faith-healing-parents/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/07/10/faith-healing-oregon-parents-plead-guilty-premature-babys-death/772751002/

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-states-texas-creationism-science-teacher-state-law-evolution-religion-a7632931.html

https://www.nature.com/news/revamped-anti-science-education-bills-in-united-states-find-success-1.21986

https://www.newsweek.com/7-year-old-boy-dies-after-being-punished-not-knowing-bible-verses-3-charged-1315946

https://nationalpost.com/news/wealth-of-roman-catholic-church-impossible-to-calculate

You invoked four fallacies so far. It should bother you that your reason for belief is this flawed.

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