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HUNDREDS OF REASONS NOT TO BE RELIGIOUS. #188 Why is God hiding from humans? If God appeared in the sky above us, told us what he/she expected us to do, then he/she would be justified in holding us responsible for violating the rules. But we are expected to believe in a “peek-a-boo-I-see-you” ruler of the universe. No adult should believe this silliness.
Hundreds of Reasons not to be Religious #189
Religions present only the information to people that they want them to know. They do this by “cherry-picking”.
A good example is the teachings of religious classes, catechism or Bible study. How many of us remember the beautiful 23rd Psalm that starts “The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want”? This was what religion wanted us to know.
But how many of us were taught the 137th Psalm that tells us how happy we will be to smash enemies’ babies’ heads on the ground? This was what religion did not want us to know. Cherry-picking is a very important part of religious teaching.
HUNDREDS OF REASONS NOT TO BE RELIGIOUS. #188 Why is God hiding from humans? If God appeared in the sky above us, told us what he/she expected us to do, then he/she would be justified in holding us responsible for violating the rules. But we are expected to believe in a “peek-a-boo-I-see-you” ruler of the universe. No adult should believe this silliness.
HUNDREDS OF REASONS NOT TO BE RELIGIOUS #186
Religions see the evil in other religions, but do not see the evil in their own religion. These are the evil men who killed 132 children in Pakistan, with many more injured. They were extremely religious and completely misguided.
The other Abrahamic religions of Judaism and Christianity were correct to condemn. But those religions ignored the passages in the Old Testament and Torah that commanded followers to kill the babies of their enemies. All the religions of the world should actively reject any passages in their holy books that call for the killing of innocents. But each religion only condemns the others.
I will not provide the passage from the Old Testament for this reference since I believe every serious defender of the Bible should have to read it in its entirety. So everyone should read it all, including this disgusting passage about killing babies. And then if you are still defending it, there is no hope for you.
That’s not really true. Most Christian religions view the Old Testament simply as stories or wise teachings, but don’t follow the laws from it. The New Testament was written to replace it with new laws that don’t involve killing. So when you find some Christian rules (specifically Catholic because that’s my religion) that say to kill people let me know and I’ll become an atheist right away, but until then I’ll keep my religion and I’ll keep spreading it’s message of peace and love.
So you are saying that the Old Testament is not a sacred book from God, but only writings of ignorant, primitive people. I agree!
HUNDREDS OF REASONS NOT TO BE RELIGIOUS #186
Religions see the evil in other religions, but do not see the evil in their own religion. These are the evil men who killed 132 children in Pakistan, with many more injured. They were extremely religious and completely misguided.
The other Abrahamic religions of Judaism and Christianity were correct to condemn. But those religions ignored the passages in the Old Testament and Torah that commanded followers to kill the babies of their enemies. All the religions of the world should actively reject any passages in their holy books that call for the killing of innocents. But each religion only condemns the others.
I will not provide the passage from the Old Testament for this reference since I believe every serious defender of the Bible should have to read it in its entirety. So everyone should read it all, including this disgusting passage about killing babies. And then if you are still defending it, there is no hope for you.
That’s not really true. Most Christian religions view the Old Testament simply as stories or wise teachings, but don’t follow the laws from it. The New Testament was written to replace it with new laws that don’t involve killing. So when you find some Christian rules (specifically Catholic because that’s my religion) that say to kill people let me know and I’ll become an atheist right away, but until then I’ll keep my religion and I’ll keep spreading it’s message of peace and love.
So you are saying that the Old Testament is not a sacred book from God, but only writings of ignorant, primitive people. I agree!
Hundreds of Reasons not to be Religious #185
Religions continue to tell people what they want to hear. Religions will even change their beliefs if it gets them followers, or helps them keep followers.
Religion is a three step process:
1) Find out what people want to hear 2) Tell them what they want to hear 3) Take their money
The Pope just changed all previous beliefs of the Catholic Church. He told a child that his dog would go to heaven. The previous teaching of the Catholic Church was that animals do not have immortal soles.
Look, I want to believe that my pets will be with me again in Paradise. But I realize that it is a made-up story with no proof. They are changing in order to tell me what I want to hear. Or is the Pope just lying to a little child? If he is lying, hopefully no adult believes this fairy tale story.
https://m.facebook.com/WFLAtheism
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Hundreds of Reasons not to be Religious #184
Religions use guilt to hold on to their believers. Religions make young children feel guilty for disobeying their parents. Young children feel guilt for lying. Older children feel guilt after they masturbate. Teens and adults feel guilt about missing church attendance.
But the worst guilt occurs when religious people doubt their faith. Churches make people feel like they are sinners if they start to question their beliefs. If religious people use their brain to think logically and question what they have been taught since childhood, they feel like traitors and are overcome with guilt. Religions use this guilt as a last weapon to retain their members. Religions often have lists of banned books to keep their members feeling guilty for reading anti-religious writings. Often the guilt causes the questioner to give in and refrain from future thoughts. Religions win when they can get their members to stop thinking.
HUNDREDS OF REASONS NOT TO BE RELIGIOUS #183
All religious books and relics are of questionable authenticity, or downright fakes. And religions often prevent any test that would prove or disprove whether they are fakes or forgeries. This “new” bible seems to agree with the Koran that Jesus was not God but merely a prophet. But no scientist is allowed by Islamics to test its age and authenticity. Similarly, the Catholic Church would not let the shroud of Turin, supposedly the burial cloth of Jesus, be tested for hundreds of years. When it was tested, it showed that it was created a thousand years after the death of Jesus. Then religious people claimed that a section of the shroud that was tested was a patch, even though great care was taken by the scientists to test the original fabric. This relic is a fake, and other books and relics are all fakes also.
HUNDREDS OF REASONS NOT TO BE RELIGIOUS #182
Religions are illogical and inconsistent. Hindu people honor and respect the cow. They protect cows and prohibit their slaughter. It borders on worship.
But they slaughter buffalo by the thousands as a sacrifice to their God. Almost the same animal.
And Buddhists also show their hypocrisy. In Burma, a majority Buddhist country, the butchers are the Moslems, since Buddhists want to do “no harm.” But many Buddhists eat the meat.
HUNDREDS OF REASONS NOT TO BE RELIGIOUS. #181
Religions have always been ashamed of the human body. The above statue of Jesus showing his genitals drove religious people to add a covering. Both Christian and Islamic religious people have considered covering the body to be a command of God. Any nudity that might cause sexual arousal was condemned by religion.
The human body is beautiful and natural. Once again, Religions have gotten everything completely wrong.
I disagree with this. St. John Paul II did a long series on the Theology of the Body in which he described the beauty of the human body and the gift that God made for us through it.
Whether you believe or not, you cannot simply lump together all religions as having the same beliefs or all being wrong.
The fact is, is that human beings are not perfect and never will be. So of course there will be some mistakes in the history of churches.
I just ask that you would consider Christianity as a possibility.
It drives many religious people crazy to think that their savior had a dick, that he could get a boner, have wet dreams, and get sexually aroused. They consider sexuality to be the lowly side of human nature.
I had a Nun in school who said that the greatest suffering Jesus had to endure was when his clothes were stripped off of Him and others could see his nakedness.
REALLY!
They beat him, they whipped him, they crucified him, they jammed a crown of thorns into his face, and they jabbed a spear in his side.
But the thing that bothered him most as he hung on the cross was that his cock was hanging out?
Grow up conservative religious people. Sex and nudity is not dirty.
Human’s have existed for hundreds of thousands of years or more. Even the oldest religion (Hindu) has existed only five thousand years. Therefore, over 10,000 generations have lived and died without knowledge of any of the teachings of our current religions.
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Hundreds of Reasons not to be Religious #180
My local religious college wants to build a “chapel”. They are starting a fund-raising to get a couple of million dollars. Do they know how many scholarships that would fund? Religions should never be trusted with money because they make too many bad decisions about how to spend it.
Hundreds of Reasons not to be Religious #179.
Religions cause suicide.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/aaron-anson/gay-teen-suicide_b_1204852.html
Hundreds of Reasons not to be Religious #179.
Religions cause suicide.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/aaron-anson/gay-teen-suicide_b_1204852.html
HUNDREDS OF REASONS NOT TO BE RELIGIOUS # #178
All three Abrahamic religions of Christianity, Islam and Judaism tell the story of God telling Abraham through a voice in Abraham’s head that he should kill his son. And Abraham obeys, but an Angel stops him at the last moment with the message that God was just fuckin’ with him.
This evil passage from “the holy book” shows how sick religion is, but none of the major religions will condemn this passage and admit that it was created by a sick mind.
The problem continues over the centuries as extremely mentally ill people who have studied this passage have also heard voices that they now interpret as the voice of God. Many have tried to kill as the voice commanded. Some have succeeded. Religions have enabled and somewhat encouraged the crimes of the extremely mentally ill by refusing to admit that this passage proves that this book is not the work of God.
Hundreds of Reasons not to be Religious #177
There can be no religious excuse for the existence of mental illness. Seriously mentally ill people can not reason, can not perceive reality, can not be happy, and sometimes can not even think. Those who can think often can not differentiate between right and wrong.
Why would a supreme being create or allow such suffering? Why would a supreme being want a creation that could not choose to be a good person? It would be wrong to exclude this person from eternal happiness. But it also would be wrong to open Heaven to mentally ill rapists and murderers. Mental illness is another reason to reject the possible existence of a God of creation.
