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Frankly, when people like Dawkins and Dennett roundly dismiss ALL religion--and not just religion that expects you to believe in gods and the supernatural--it makes me want to get up on my box and preach.

Rituals and observances help bring a sense of purpose and meaning and place in the world to people, they help to build community, and they can inspire people to live generous and principled lives. The problem isn't religion: it's supernaturalism. Believing in gods and spirits and all that nonsense divorces you from reality, and the fact is that reality is wondrous and amazing and beautiful enough, all on its own.

Definitely the anti choice people. The other one would be "I don't use birth control because God plans my children thing" the stpidity of that makes my blood boil.

What is a soapbox?

How much soap could a soap box box if a soap box could box soap?

Erm, you don't break out of a soapbox, you stand on one.

When was the last time any of you saw a soapbox?

I write an award-winning bi-weekly column for my local newspaper concerning politics and religion. I talk a lot about First Amendment rights, religious overreach, and separation of church and state. It is my "Bully Pulpit" and I reach a good number of people. I have not slowed down in 14 years of writing. I tend to quote Robert Ingersol and Dawkins a lot, but believe that many on this site are saying things that are important.

Fluoride

Anything to do w tRUMP.

...apparently, politics.. Though ironically, Atheism is why I got political. But I don’t know what’d get you knocked off that box sooner, promoting Atheism, or Democrats..?

Sending fucking prayers.

FREE WILL. I was 25 when I realized that free will is an illusion. It is a belief that creates all kinds of erroneous thinking, like people telling others what they should feel and blaming others for what they want or don't want. I should probably stop right here or I will be on my soapbox, and that is not what this post is about.

This is a bad habit for me and not just with religion; guns, environmental issues, women's issues, and more. The one thing that really gets me going is that so many liberals, who are supposed to be open minded, actually being closed minded regarding some of their emotion based "causes".

My partner often reminded me I was speaking to the choir. I told her I know but was just thinking out loud. Now you guys get to be the 'lucky' recipients of my rantings.

Believers in Astrology. I am quiet at first, then comes the question, "what's your star sign" and I have several come back options, none of which is my star sign.

Being lied to...I can usually bite my tongue when somebody starts to bluster about something, but once they lie to me, I have to throw the flag. Everybody has the right to their opinion, but no one has the right to feed me a load of bullshit...

Cruelty to animals, actually it has been known to get me off my soapbox and into somebody's face.

Left lane cruisers. Pisses me off.

Logical fallacies in any field of thought piss me off. They prove how people are intellectually lazy, and just follow emotions.

Fantasy Wars
A never-ending stories of Religious conflicts over war and Sex/love.
As your Stomach Turns 2nd season

After the war of a billion Muslims and a billion Christians , christ won . Christian claim to take(steal) every soul in the Universe, including dogs, cats and Aliens.

Manys groups escaped earth to create their own planet . Like Gays- planet Queerto. Or nonbelievers, planet Godless. Mormon's planet Babe. Muslim genocide was worst than the American natives, coupled by their low technology they never got off the ground.

Christian forced atheist to build their spaceship to conquer other planet in the name of God based on fear and fairytales. They continue to get lost in space due 1000s of their own Christian denomination disagreement.

I would require and cost me several vomit buckets to produce it. Yet the Religious soup opera will egurgitate it, like hot cakes.

I always see these posts when there's a ton of replies, but in this case, I bet a lot of us have overlapping conditions that bring out the soapbox.

Church-state separation, far-right evangelical Republicans and most of the political stuff that went on in 2017, inequality for the LGBT community and people of color, racists, dirty/murderous cops and the crooked legal system that doesn't put them in jail.

That's all I can think of right now, but I'm sure there are more.

The weak.

Depending how strong my mood is it can be hard to keep my mouth shut about the following:

"Adopt don't shop"
"It's all in how you raise them"(dogs)
"Cropped vs flopped" ears

So the worst for me is the topic of dogs with most people.
I hate being asked about dogs as if I'm an expert (which I'm not-know just enough to be an opinionated pita) when in a group of friends because editing my thoughts isn't easy in that regard.
Have to pep talk myself prior "I will not talk about dogs tonight x 100" and feel inordinately proud when able to avoid the topic.

I am not sure of breaking out my soapbox... But lot of subjects irks me. The growing fanaticism and fundamentalism in the government. Injecting the religious venom and killing the innocence of the child. Games people play in Corporate world -
The total apathy towards society by many corporates and then camouflage the apathy with CSR. List goes on

Unfortunately the people that wrote the constitution intended to separate church and state, over the years religion siding gets votes so the political entities started incorporating religious ideas in the doctrines. If you read careful back in history people like Ben Franklin did not want one god idea he thought many gods would be better to avoid the prejudice issues (example my religion is better than your bickering) Not exactly certain why they did not listen to Ben Franklin they could have saved many miss doing in our history if the congress would have listened back then. How many senseless deaths could have been avoided?

Corrupt politicians