This place sure goes in "spurts"

[Liam Proven]

2009/7/20 Odd <iodine at runbox.no>:
> Harold Sawyer wrote:
>> I don't consider myself a nutbag.  I don't think the world is 6,000 years old.
>>
>> None of my circle believe that either.  But I am an active Christian,
>> volunteering in prisons.  Not pushing my faith on others, but helping
>> those who want to try my faith connect, then change life styles.  Over
>> the past 15 plus years, I think I have had some positive impact.
>
> Fair enough.
>
>> Of course, anti-christian nuts might take issue with that.    Odd, are
>> you an anti-christian nut?
>
> Mostly anti-religion. I see what religious beliefs do to the world
> and wish for a world with no religions..

Entirely agree. I would like to see a world with no religious or any
supernatural belief of any kind. Rationality and science are the only
ways to get anywhere. Morality is entirely separable from religion,
but religion can be used to justify any kind of vile crime - and is
for most of them.

And I'm /not/ being remotely humorous.

Organised religion and the use of faith to justify irrational actions
are the among the most negative and invidious problems of the world
today.

We need science, reason and logic to find our way out of the mess we
have got in by believing in great invisible beings in the sky who
control things, will make it all better when we screw up and will take
us away to an undetectable, unprovable and entirely irrational better
place when we die.

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