Atheists & Agnostics

TreasonousBastard

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4. Well, you can go on blaming religion as the worst of the boogey-men...

Wed Apr 22, 2015, 10:14 AM

Apr 2015

but the body count is the body count. Religion wouldn't have half a chance trying to match Mao's purges if we humans weren't so ready to believe.

Is it really all religion's fault that we are so ready to believe in a perfect afterlife that we resist the hard work in making this a better present life? I would blame religion for taking advantage of our own faults, but they are first of all our own faults.

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Losing My Religion? [View all] trotsky Apr 2015 OP

Indeed nil desperandum Apr 2015 #1

That is a powerful story, and... TreasonousBastard Apr 2015 #2

The Armor of God trotsky Apr 2015 #3

Well, you can go on blaming religion as the worst of the boogey-men... TreasonousBastard Apr 2015 #4

Care to address the points made about the uniqueness of religion? trotsky Apr 2015 #5

Care to addres my point about our gullibility... TreasonousBastard Apr 2015 #7

Anti-vaxers? trotsky Apr 2015 #9

Of course they do, it's just that... TreasonousBastard Apr 2015 #13

Well I'm glad we've established that your straw man is indeed in a world of hurt. trotsky Apr 2015 #14

Nothing to address there.... TreasonousBastard Apr 2015 #16

Great, then we agree! n/t trotsky Apr 2015 #28

Religion wouldn't have half a chance trying to match Mao's purges AlbertCat Apr 2015 #26

Religion had nothing to do with the Holocaust? beam me up scottie Apr 2015 #17

What apologist lie? Jews were singled out... TreasonousBastard Apr 2015 #19

Ask Martin Luther. beam me up scottie Apr 2015 #20

Nazi death camps, AlbertCat Apr 2015 #24

Hmmmmmm.... AlbertCat Apr 2015 #6

...and losing the girl...don't forget losing the girl. PassingFair Apr 2015 #8

Then there's Taydolf Swiftler... onager Apr 2015 #25

Sorry about this, but just in case there's anyone who hasn't heard it - mr blur Apr 2015 #11

That reminded me of this.... AlbertCat Apr 2015 #12

No need to be sorry for that one! trotsky Apr 2015 #15

And another... onager Apr 2015 #27

"lose my religion" Promethean Apr 2015 #21

Yep, a common old saying in the South. onager Apr 2015 #22

K&R for yet another great article posted in this forum. n/t deucemagnet Apr 2015 #10

My heart aches for this man. beam me up scottie Apr 2015 #18

we knew we were Muslims by birth. AlbertCat Apr 2015 #23

As noted "self-described anti-theist" ;-) Richard Dawkins has said... trotsky Apr 2015 #29

“Losing my religion” by REM yortsed snacilbuper Apr 2015 #30