Unbeknownst to the well-intentioned auteur, this video is not about people who were raised religious. It’s about people who were raised fundamentalist and told they were being raised religious.

After watching this video, I think I am now better to articulate why I feel so much resentment for having been raised religious. It was harmful to me as a child, lowered my self esteem and self worth and attempted to deny my ability to think as a rational individual.

I reposted the video on Facebook.

Because the religion not really a religion but is a cult parading as a religion

Dennet and Hitchens: a pair to draw to

Religion was invented by humans to control humans. It uses the guilt of sin and fear of hell.

Interesting how young (indeed, alive) they all look. It seems like only yesterday when I and most thinking individuals, including academics, were susceptible to this kind of emotional hucksterism, based on atheistic literalism.

But that was a previous millennium. The academics have moved on. Evidence is ruthless like that.

But those young men made names and fortunes for themselves hawking their superstitions. The ones who are still alive rest at least in material comfort if no longer in academic sainthood.

The act of making rules is a form of a power play.

Religion is inherently evil.

The ancients invented it to explain what they did not yet understand.

Humans will always choose to weaponize whatever they can. All in the name of keeping and gaining power and wealth.
Oh yeah, and subjugating anyone they feel is beneath them.

Religion usually does more harm than good either when it attempts to become involved in politics, or when it seeks to become part of the societal heirarchy on a par with the government.