I believe that religion is a relic from the past. I believe it is barbaric, in many cases cruel, vile and evil. (Most people strip the bad bits away and pretend they were never there to begin with). I believe that the human race needs to discard that vestige of the past if it is to progress at an appropriate rate.
I don't want children to suffer and die because some people think maybe their god doesn't like stem cell research. I don't want people to have any commonly accepted resource at hand to justify their hatred of another person. I don't want children brainwashed by their parents into denying science and reason in favor of a literal interpretation of a collection of myths and legends.
Atheism isn't a group, really, and I hate to turn it into one. The more I think about it the more I realize it's best to leave things as they are. Religion is in its death throes. I want to speed that up, but maybe the best thing to do is just to sit back and let things run their course.
Last edited by Gribble; 20-06-09 at 07:39 AM.
God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New--the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance.
-Mark Twain
If people are good only because they fear punishment and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
-Albert Einstein