You know what they say. Everytime Obama fist bumps, an evangelist slits their wrists.
Oh, everyone hates atheists, right. Forgot the topic for a second there. Same things that have been said, little things like letting our favorite little invisible deity slip into our money and pledge of allegiance over the years have irritated people to no end. The response is always "It's not a big deal," part of me? Wants to play some kind of country-wide ruse and replace all instances of God with Allah and see if they keep saying, "It's no big deal," when it's not their god of choice that's slithering it's way into things that it shouldn't. I would bet they don't.
Religion has a place and over half this country seems to have FORGOTTEN that place. It's not in science class, it's not in state documents, it's DEFINITELY not in morality. It's in the human heart, giving hope to hopeless and faith to faithless. If people would just use religion for peace and love not bigotry and hate noone important would take issue with it. But using it to try to make every kid in this country say, "One nation under god," or feel like they don't fit in? Attempting to pass off the world being created in 7 days off as science? Denying people rights because of gender or race? Giving rights to non-sentient creatures while stripping those of sentient creatures away? No, religion does NOT belong there. Using religion for that makes religion a BAD thing. Using religion for that makes YOU a bad person, and it makes you feel bad.
TL;DR: Use religion for good things and you get a good response. Use religion for bad things and you piss off everyone else.
~Rico
Oh, everyone hates atheists, right. Forgot the topic for a second there. Same things that have been said, little things like letting our favorite little invisible deity slip into our money and pledge of allegiance over the years have irritated people to no end. The response is always "It's not a big deal," part of me? Wants to play some kind of country-wide ruse and replace all instances of God with Allah and see if they keep saying, "It's no big deal," when it's not their god of choice that's slithering it's way into things that it shouldn't. I would bet they don't.
Religion has a place and over half this country seems to have FORGOTTEN that place. It's not in science class, it's not in state documents, it's DEFINITELY not in morality. It's in the human heart, giving hope to hopeless and faith to faithless. If people would just use religion for peace and love not bigotry and hate noone important would take issue with it. But using it to try to make every kid in this country say, "One nation under god," or feel like they don't fit in? Attempting to pass off the world being created in 7 days off as science? Denying people rights because of gender or race? Giving rights to non-sentient creatures while stripping those of sentient creatures away? No, religion does NOT belong there. Using religion for that makes religion a BAD thing. Using religion for that makes YOU a bad person, and it makes you feel bad.
TL;DR: Use religion for good things and you get a good response. Use religion for bad things and you piss off everyone else.
~Rico
