Religion

Constitutional freedom of religion gives special privilege to irrational religious people. There are all manner of laws that do not apply to members of particular religious sects, e.g. that you must have a photographic driver’s licence to drive, or that you may not carry a knife. Yet rational people must comply with them. This is unfair favouritism to the fruitcakes. The whole notion of religious exceptions to law is a sham since anyone can claim to believe any nonsense necessary to challenge a law they don’t want to obey.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 62)


	Christmas Carols	Lyrics to 69 Christmas carols. 2010-02-02

	Separation of Church and State	The necessity of preserving the separation of church and state. 2010-02-02

	Combating Kristianity	Why I believe it is necessary to combat Kristianity, non-violently of course, by exposing its lies, wishful thinking and tall tales to the light of truth. 2010-02-09

	Noah	Why it is unlikely that God wrote the entire Bible. A list of Biblical oopsies (inconsistencies). Why the story of Noah is a tall tale in the same league with the tales of Paul Bunyan. 2010-02-05

	A Bible Study Guide	The parts of the Bible the churches don’t want you to notice. 2010-02-05

	King James Bible	The complete text of the King James Bible in HTML format. 2010-02-05

	Is There A God?	Exploring the big questions. Is there a God, and if so what is He like? 2010-02-05

	The Real God	The nature of the real God. 2010-02-05

	Quotations about Religion	Quotations about religion, especially Christianity, from both atheists and believers. 2010-02-09

	Unjustified Certainty	The problem of unjustified certainty, especially religious fanaticism. 2010-02-03

	Church Tax Subsidies	Why I think we should phase out church property tax subsidies. 2010-02-02

	Was Jesus Gay?	Was Jesus a homosexual? Decide for yourself on the validity of the biblical evidence. 2010-02-02

Law Book	Tennessee Law Book	If the Religious Right gained power, how the laws of Tennessee would be worded. 2010-02-02

	The New Ten Commandments	The existing set of commandments focus on trivia and miss the major sins. I have reformulated them to bring them up to date. 2010-02-02

	life after death	various beliefs about what happens after you die. 2010-02-02

	CCism	A new religion based on Cosmic Consciousness. 2010-02-02

	fatalism	religious and secular fatalistic philosophies. 2010-02-02

	Rational Morality	An alternative to morality based on religious myth. 2010-02-02

	Are We Alone?	“Are we alone in the universe?” Is there life in other parts of the universe? 2010-02-02

	Christian Apology	The apology I would like to hear the pope to read on behalf of all Christians for the harm they have done to our planet with their nutty beliefs. 2010-02-02

	Living Love	My cult, founded by Ken Keyes Jr. It teaches techniques to reduce mental suffering. 2010-02-09

	Gay Civil Rights	The battle between equal civil rights for gays and right wing “Christianity”. 2010-02-02

	Out Campaign	Campaign to convince atheists to come out of the closet.

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	Feedback	Read feedback from readers of the religion section. If you don’t want your message and my reply publicly posted, please let me know. 2010-02-02

The misfortunes of human beings may be divided into two classes: First, those inflicted by the non-human environment and, second, those inflicted by other people. As mankind have progressed in knowledge and technique, the second class has become a continually increasing percentage of the total. In old times, famine, for example, was due to natural causes, and although people did their best to combat it, large numbers of them died of starvation. At the present moment large parts of the world are faced with the threat of famine, but although natural causes have contributed to the situation, the principal causes are human. For six years the civilized nations of the world devoted all their best energies to killing each other, and they find it difficult suddenly to switch over to keeping each other alive. Having destroyed harvests, dismantled agricultural machinery, and disorganized shipping, they find it no easy matter to relieve the shortage of crops in one place by means of a superabundance in another, as would easily be done if the economic system were in normal working order. As this illustration shows, it is now man that is man’s worst enemy. Nature, it is true, still sees to it that we are mortal, but with the progress in medicine it will become more and more common for people to live until they have had their fill of life. We are supposed to wish to live for ever and to look forward to the unending joys of heaven, of which, by miracle, the monotony will never grow stale. But in fact, if you question any candid person who is no longer young, he is very likely to tell you that, having tasted life in this world, he has no wish to begin again as a “new boy” in another. For the future, therefore, it may be taken that much the most important evils that mankind have to consider are those which they inflict upon each other through stupidity or malevolence or both.
~ Bertrand Russell (born: 1872-05-18 died: 1970-02-02 at age: 97) Ideas That Have Harmed Mankind, from Unpopular Essays

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