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Re: @Atheists: Do you hate religion? -
February 17th 2011, 04:46 AM
I don't hate religious people, but learning that someone is religious will typically make me think a little less of someone. How much less depends on the beliefs. I don't believe I've ever met someone whose religious beliefs improved my opinion of them. That said, I'm still perfectly capable of liking and getting along with religious people, and I happily acknowledge that most religious people are completely harmless.
But I despise religion. From where I sit, it's one of the two biggest evils in the world (the other being greed). I don't even agree that religion has value in that it comforts people, and that's the closest to a good side that religion has. Like Acheron; if it were within my power to remove religion from the world I would.
The atoms that make up you and me were born in the hearts of suns many times greater than ours, and in time our atoms will once again reside amongst the stars. Life is but an idle dalliance of the cosmos, frail, and soon forgotten. We have been set adrift in an ocean whose tides we are only beginning to comprehend and with that maturity has come the realization that we are, at least for now, alone. In that loneliness, it falls to us to shine as brightly as the stars from which we came.
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