#religious sentiments

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

Blasphemy laws can NEVER be justified 'Insult to religion' laws put religious feelings above human rights. These laws are absurdities wherever they stand on statute books. They lend a false legitimacy to those who commit acts of violence. So long as 'blasphemy' remains a crime across the globe, extremists will find justification for murder and inhumanity.

"Blasphemy laws" are the codification of "words are violence."

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"We are allowed to question people about their politics or ethics and expect them to defend their beliefs, or at least hold their own in any other important matter by recourse to evidence, yet somehow on the massive subject of God and how he might have us behave, all rational discussion must stop the moment we hear 'I believe'."

-- Derren Brown

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

Science doesn’t care about your feelings. It doesn’t care about your religious sentiments or your political movement’s ideology.

Considering this strength, this lack of taking sides, it’s no wonder believers and ideologues alike despise and reject it, with feigned divine authority, or imagined victimhood persecution. Science doesn’t “hate.” It can’t hate. Science is inconvenient, because faith and narratives are undermined by it. Especially ones that aren’t true.

EDIT: We see these offended ideologues gathering in the comments, doing exactly this, making stupid excuses for why science isn’t true and why they can ignore it.

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

Fuck your fragile “sentiments.”

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

Where “religious sentiments” and “lived experience” reign.