Religion must die for mankind to live.
Don't think so. Intolerance must die for mankind to live. Basic freedom and all that. I want to spend my weekends baptizing dead people in the Palmyra Temple that's my call, ain't no one going to take that right away from me... I've never once tried to force my religion on anyone. Ever.
On the other hand two-three times a week I get someone trying to convince me (with full profanity and rage) that religion is a waste of time.
Its a sad thing when you become what you hate, and these sorts of people just don't see that forcing their non-belief on me is just as wrong as someone forcing a belief on them.
Billions of people every day worship in peace without raising a finger or a voice against anyone else... the crackpot fundamentalists and extremest groups are the ones that give the rest of us a bad name.
So go ahead. Send your death-squad to round me up in the name of a religion-free future. You've become just like the ones you seek to suppress.
I admit, I didn't write that line, but, when taken in full context, I really am starting to agree with it. Sure people can talk about religion giving a moral compass for children and culture, but in the scheme of humanity it's done mo0re harm than good.
Here's the context of that quote:
The irony of religion is that because of its power to divert man to destructive courses, the world could actually come to an end... Plain fact is, religion must die for mankind to live. The hour is getting very late to be able to indulge having in key decisions made by religious people. By irrationalists. B those who would steer the ship of state not by a compass, but by the equivalent of reading the entrails of a chicken. George Bush prayed a lot about Iraq, but he didn't learn a lot about it... Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to brag about. And those who preach faith and enable and elevate it are intellectual slaveholders keeping mankind in a bondage to fantasy and nonsense that has spawned and justified so much lunacy and destruction. Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings who don't have all the answers to think that they do. Most people would think it's wonderful when someone says, "I'm willing, Lord! I'll do whatever you want me to do!" Except that since there are no gods actually talking to us, that void is filled in by people with their own corruptions and limitations and agendas... And anyone who tells you they know, they just know what happens when you die, I promise you you don't. How can I be so sure? Because I don't know, and you do not possess mental powers that I do not. The only appropriate attitude for man to have about the big questions is not the arrogant certitude that is the hallmark of religion, but doubt. Doubt is humble, and that's what man needs to be, considering that human history is just a littany of getting shit dead wrong... This is why rational people, anti-religionists, must end their timidity and come out of the closet and assert themselves. And those who consider themselves only moderately religious really need to look in the mirror and realize that the solace and comfort that religion brings you comes at a horrible price... If you belonged to a political party or a social club that was tied to as much bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, violence, and sheer ignorance as religion is, you'd resign in protest. To do otherwise is to be an enabler, a mafia wife, for the true devils of extremism that draw their legitimacy from the billions of their fellow travelers. If the world does come to an end here, or wherever, or if it limps into the future, decimated by the effects of religion-inspired nuclear terrorism, let's remember what the real problem was. We learned how to precipitate mass death before we got past the neurological disorder of wishing for it. That's it. Grow up or die.
