Religion and faith is NOT a necessity!
Call me a hippocrit or whatever you wish. Yes I am a member of the Danish People’s Church, I was confirmed, and got my son baptised… But I do not believe in God or have any kind of faith in anything supernatural, regardless of how tempting it might be to worship FSM (The Flying Spaghetti Monster). I am a traditionalist and I have nothing against having rituals. Rituals and traditions are helping with creating stability in our society. These rituals or traditions does not require that you believe in anything supernatural or all powerful. You do not need to pray or worship anything to sit together at a table, share gifts and have a nice dinner with your entire family.
It is not like Christianity invented Christmas or Easter. These were pagan traditions that Christianity assimilated into their belief system.
Making the transition for the peasants much easier.
I know that many atheists share my views on traditions, even Richard Dawkins has mentioned that he is a traditionalist.
It gets bad when you’re required to change your life to please some imaginary being that you have blind faith in. When you speak out to the public about how bad they are not for following your imaginary friends rules.
You may claim how much you will that your imaginary friends is real, how can millions of people be wrong. That does not change the fact that there are no proof or evidence for God or anything supernatural.
You may claim that I have blind faith in science and that ID (Intelligent Design) is an alternative choice for evolution. Even though it was dismissed by the US supreme court in the Dover v. Miller case and was labelled as nothing other than Creationism.
You may believe Kent Hovind, Kirk Cameron, or even Bananaman (Ray Comfort). Even though when these Christians try to explain themself scientificly they have been found to outright lie or just putting out wrong info.
Google is being clouded with Christian sites that tries to get scientific sites lower page rank, so that when someone searches for evolution, they will get into a Christian site that lies about evolution.
A Danish example is www.oplevjesus.dk that in their Evolution section has a box that says, “What does the smart people say about evolution.” And they are quoting random scientists that are not even talking about evolution, but about abiogensis (the origin of life). Evolution is about how life behave, not its origins. Evolution does not deal with cosmology (big bang) either or radio metric dating (eg. C-14 dating). Evolution are observations of species’ development and natural selection. Adapting to their enviroment.
Do not tell me that religion is more good than bad.
Then you have been misguided by the religious agenda. Just look at Youtube, Google, US Lobbyism. Creationism/ID is gaining ground because people are blinded by their faith.
Sarah Palin is a creationist, and several million people would vote for her, because of her biblical view on life.
You can create groups that help people in life, instead of false promises of an afterlife. Making people live in a delusion is not the answer.
Lets remove the blashpemy paragraph from the Danish laws. Also lets hope that the UN does not pass their international blasphemy law.
Atheists and secular humanists should cry out now, make their voices heard.
Why is religion so intollerant against any criticism, why can’t atheistic groups have billboards where they tell people they are not alone in the lack of belief.
Feel free to comment.
I beleive that some of the reason that Religious people are intollorant against us is because A: They’re afraid of change, their religiions have probably been here for a very very long time..
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B: They just think we’re evil and all “Going to Hell” Because we do not beleive in something that to us does not exist. (Not all religions feel this way..)
But what Irritates me is when religion gets in the way of things like voting for political leaders.. Here in the U.s. you could be mentally retarded but as long as you’re a creationist then you’re A O.k.
I think people need to open up to others’ oppinions instead of just assuming their right because some fictional book told them so.
Am I the only getting the irony of someone condemning Christianity has the name Christian?
On a more serious note, I do agree with some points, as you know. Although, I do not think throwing mud just because the other part is, is right.
//Mark