Religion is for the weak of mind.
Religion was created to govern the masses, and in the process has created wars and atrocities throughout the centuries.
I ask you, what if we didn't need to rely on ancient texts describing talking snakes, talking bushes on fire, killing innocents to aquire virgins in "heaven", and a cruel vindictive god, that punishes his children for doing things he allowed us to be able to do in the first place.
What if we only worried on the here, and now. Society would benefit greatly from the advances in technology and the science/medical field. Religion has only torn us apart, and created death, instead of what it was meant to do, cherish it. I say we reject it, and live for the here and now, and when we all eventually die, let the chips fall where they may.
I will finish this rant with one of my favorite quotes...
"I suggest that we might want to depose this incumbent God and start dealing with The Real World. He's proven time and again to be cruel, capricious, and vindictive. He drowns, crushes, burns, and starves millions of us every day. He created cancer, viruses, and germs to invade and destroy our bodies as He sees fit, and uses them very effectively. In His wisdom, He directed those in charge to impede stem cell research so that such a powerful approach would not be available to us and He wouldn't have to strain the Divine Intellect to disarm that defense. We amuse Him as we flail about vainly trying to appease Him. I vote that we dump Him."
-- James Randi
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