

Originally posted by NeoQuest

So skippy are you anti-religious?



[edit on 11-5-2006 by NeoQuest]

I have great distaste for organized religion. Organized religion is like a mob mentality, uncontrollable and without thought or intelligence.Your average person of religion is quite intelligent and maybe even very open and rational as an individual. But as a collective you have a mass of evil and destruction that follows little logic or direction.I understand an individual’s need for belief, no matter what it is. I have my own beliefs after all that do for me what others beliefs do for them. That’s all fine and dandy.Butbelief is nothing but pure evil. A version of belief should NEVER be dictated to you, and more importantly belief should never be forced on others who do not share that belief. And organized religion, ALL OF THEM, do just that. They force belief. EVIL.How many laws must I follow today in America that are based on religious principle? There are many. How many practices of my belief are not permitted in certain places because it does not mesh with others religions? That’s forced belief.Collective belief in something as emotional as religion is the most destructive force ever known to man. More people have died in the name of some collective belief than any other cause in human history.And you know what? It’s no better today than it was two thousand years ago. Organized religion has done nothing to improve man as a collective; it’s actually quite the opposite.So yes, you can say I am anti religious. But I am not anti belief. What you believe is not better than what I believe, but unfortunately some of you are willing to kill me over it.[edit on 11-5-2006 by skippytjc]