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I had pair of elderly men stop at my house today. They were Christians of some kind (probably non-denominational) I could tell the way they introduced themselves by reading a passage in the bible. These people are always trying to sell more than just the scripture, so I told them I didn’t want them to waste their time on me, and I’m not interested, and I don’t believe we have an immortal soul, and I don’t believe in God, and I respect whatever they’re doing, and that I wish them luck, etc. etc… I smiled and tried to be polite as possible about it but it didn’t matter; as they were walking off I heard one of them say “Have fun in hell.” under his breath.
Thats my main complaint with religious people. The ones who think they’re totally square with “the lord” are, nine times out of ten, total douchebags. That is the real appeal for these assholes, they get their rocks off believing that everyone else is going to burn. I’m sorry, but that is evil.
The fucking duplicity of the whole institution make me sick. It isn’t just that the “creation theory” is a pile of shit and everyone, even the pope knows it but pretends otherwise; or how every religion is a crooked business that squeezes money from the faithful; its that religion -any religion- externalizes all of the things that make people “good”. People do things the right way, not for themselves, but for fear of some kind of holy retribution. It just makes for bad people. People who only act nice on the outside because they’re trying to score “God points”. And these people are bewildered by the concept that one could do good for it’s own sake, without being forced to do good by an omnipotent judge leering over them.
I had a friend who is a devout baptist and he would stand flat-footed to your face and tell you that without Jesus everyone is doomed to damnation… and then he would add he could kill somebody and still go to heaven because he’s accepted Jesus Christ as his savior.
I’ve got another buddy and we get along famously, but he is super religious so we usually end up having little disagreements over the nature of the universe. I can be pretty convincing sometimes and once he had to fall back on the old “but we NEED God to give us order” argument. He’s like “If science could prove that there is no God then I’ll leave my family and start doing drugs and having lots of sex with prostitutes etc etc…” and I told him that was the basis for my hatred of religion. That instead of doing right for the sake of goodness, or for the betterment of their brother man, religion gives an unnecessary foundation for all morality and that foundation is a house of cards. Wake up people! You don’t need God to be decent to eachother.
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