Religion is an opinion.
Naturalism is an understanding of history, biology and other sciences as well as understanding people and many areas of educational study.
Opinions are like assholes. Everyone has one.
But when you study and educate yourself or have work experience in a specific field, you become a Subject Matter Expert – and your opinion is not a guess or something that is emotionally satisifying or comforting – often it is recognizing that there is nothing comforting in the understanding of the subject matter.
a working professional expert has studied and worked in the subject area.
this is why TV weather people – who are television performers and not scientists or even subject matter experts – do not understand that weather is a local condition while Climate is a global trending over mass regions.
uneducated opinion is not as valid or meaningful or significant as actual education and knowledge.
it is not enough to say “I am religious and that’s all I need to understand”
because religion is one small part of the human experience and it’s only because religion is a means by which wealth is concentrated in the hand of a few powerful people that religion has interesected with history, literature, arts and all aspect of human life.
because we give it that power and money and attention for all the wrong reasons.
understanding history is to understand that religion is not enlightment or the betterment of the masses.
religion is oppressive and is spread by the word or the sword.
it is intolerant to new ideas and people who are not in compliance.
religion is in the truest and most clinical sense of the words, mentally unhealthy and delusional. divorced from reality, logic, reason and the natural world.
religion is the source of evil and cruelty – because it causes harm to people who are most vulnerable and favors those who have power and wealth.
Occupy your mind and purge the poison that is organized religion.
even the moderates, you too, because you are just cherry picking the other way
and failing to keep the extremists – which are the only true believers of your faith – in check and their numbers and social impact to a minimum.
don’t be intellectually dishonest on top of everything else.
because the truth and reality is the best sanitizer.
witch hunts
spanish inquistion
crusades 1.0 and crusades 2.0 (war on terror)
oppression of civil rights from women voting, slavery, civil right, gay rights
bullying from the pulpit
Vatican Sex Crimes
Canada’s Indian Residential Schools, Jericho School for the Deaf, Mount Cashel Orphage
catholic and religious hospitals refusing abortions or post rape contraceptives
Obsessions with sexual molesting of boys while ignoring that girls are molested in a 7 to 1 ratio – and that most children are molested by a family member or friend – not strangers.
anytime religiously powerful people are put in charge of vulnerable people
they are abused physically mentally and sexually.
if Jesus was real, the earth would be flooded with his tears
what makes anyone think that your god is going to save you and return the earth to the original Garden of Eden factory settings after the obscene carbon footprint of modern industrialized western nations and exploitation of nations not powerful enough to have environmental, labour rights or basic human rights in place?
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