I had a discussion with a Christian about Christian terrorism and murders. She insists that has never happened. When I mentioned the Crusades, the Inquisition, the Salem Witch Trials, the abortions bombings her reply was "well, those aren't REAL Christians".

I did tell her that as far as they were concerned they were REAL Christians. She had no reply to that.

Religion is, and always has been, a personal display. The peacock, spreading its tail and saying 'Look at ME! I'm BETTER than you. I believe in GOD (and that's the RIGHT god - not the ridiculous, childish, fairy-tale gods others believe in) and this means I'm INHERENTLY GOOD even when I act like a complete bastard. Because of this I can wallow in my own bigotry, injustice, intollerance and mysogyny to my heart's content - and STILL look at myself in the mirror and convince myself I'm perfect.'

'The meek shall inherit the earth' - yeah, right!

It's not about being meek. It's about being arrogant and hypocritical... and still having the 'I'm a man/woman of god' get-out-of-jail-free card.

Blaming 'gods' or belief in them ignores the commonality shared by theologies and secular ideologies, placing sole responsibility for destructive human behavior on imaginary entities.

People get angry when their expectations are not realized and angry at anything that undermines their 'faith' that expectations are real enough to be realized; as in becoming manifest in their reality some time and some place.

Religions are protection/salvation games that are very costly of life, love and material means to play in the long-term. Bad news is never welcome and particularly so if it even hints that our 'faith' in things we come to the opinion are vital are actually nothing we imagine them to be; sometimes nothing at all.

Secular 'faiths' can be every bit as dangerous and destructive, all by themselves, as theologies. One of them, Communism, often gets erroneously chalked up to atheist alleged destructiveness because it, like atheists, rejects gods. This, because they fail to recognize (consciously or not) that the 'ism', the ideological construct has merely supplanted gods. Promises are functionally identical. Paradise is promised to the devout and the end (god or ideal) always justifies means. As long a Paradise is somewhere and sometime in the future, the only difference between the one with ecstatic workers and harp playing angels is that one is allegedly material and the other not. In actuality, they are both non-existent and never will be.

As long as our kind follows a penchant for outsourcing personal reality rather than articulating it ourselves, theologians, carnival barkers, politicians, patent medicine purveyors, climate change oracles, pyramid investment geniuses and the rest of the promise merchants will have job security and we'll continue our 6,000 (so far) festival of butchery and intolerance. There's plenty of blame to go around for dispatching deluded people to spread their respective special systems of 'truth' in service to anything and everything except personal use of the faculties we are born with in greater abundance than any other creatures on the planet.

There was no need for Gods influence. Lets say that god does not exist. Can anyone demonstrate that things would be any different? I do not think there is a god to have any influence.

Atheism, Agnosticism, Freethinking,, is not and have never been an ideology, a religion, a belief, a movement, a party,,,, it is nothing but a simple necessity as an answer to a widely spread thesis called 'God' (s), 'the opium of the masses'! When someone cause harm and is 'an atheist, agnostic,,,' then it's his/her/their own responsibility. Religions, ideologies, beliefs,, and especially the ones with those 'nice scriptures' have on the other hand to answer!

Athiesm has been pretty much bloodless? I beg to differ.

The religion of pieces: : : : Atrocity of the Week . . .Nigeria: 81 Villagers Massacred . .

Jihad Report . . . May, 2020. . . . Attacks 194 . . . Killed 907. . . Injured 734 . . . Suicide Blasts 6. . . Countries 24

37098+ attacks since 9-11. Five every day. 500,000+ Killed. 500,000+ injured.

There is NOTHING Liberal about islam. . . .There is NOTHING American about islam. . .

Islam is medieval.

Islam: Darkness spread by the sword for 1400 years. The non-stop invasion continues . We must resist.

It is perhaps more about the influence of the belief in gawd.

I conclude that all of these groups think that they have the one true handle on the "truth", even willing to commit murder in the name of and for their God. This obviously isn't logical because they can't all be right. I call it brainwashed!

Those were the good ole days?

We may have an understanding of the word Atheist but it is probably the most misunderstood word in our common language despite it simplicity of meaning. ' Communist ' also has a much simpler meaning than its history tells us. The concept of going Atheist has also been built up to strike fear just the same. We have to get round this if we are to get a surge in advancement.

your evil is some other mans angel.

this should be man's bible.
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