| dallas said: My family are all atheists, sister brother uncles aunts grandparents etc. This started with my grandad, and his influence has been felt on down. Personally I have a big problem with the faiths descended from Abraham for the following reasons: -Islam - they tend to not care about terrorism or to rationalize it saying that the US, Britain, etc are hurting muslims. Well we now have to spend much more on the military, CIA, FBI and law enforcement bc of terrorism, and we could be spending that $$$$$ on social programs or whatnot. I have a big problem with that. Protestants- they seem to think that bc they are christians and dont do things like drink or smoke weed, that they are superior morally and ethically to other people. I've known plenty of Christians that pieces of Sh!t that you wouldnt want around your worst enemy, but whatever. I dislike how they have their morality based on things like drugs, gambling, drinking, etc. If I want to go to vegas, who the hell am I hurting?
Jews- They are kind of butthurt from the holocaust (understandable) but I dislike organized religion so I tend to talk some smack. I'll talk the same smack about jews that I talk about other religions, and they try to call me some kind of nazi. Fvck them. Seriously, they can get over this, they aren't in the same group of minorities as blacks, hispanics, etc bc their level of income has historically been higher than these groups and even of white people on average. Catholics- I hate how the Catholics protect their own pedophile preists and just shuffle them around from Church to church and dont kick them out. I also hate how they dont allow preists to be married, which tends to bring more molestes into the preisthood. |
Although I agree with you I find your narrowing down your "big problem" to the Abrahamic religions rather bias.
In India there are hardline fundamentalist from the Hindu and Sikh religions who fit readily under most of the points you laid out. I have a very good Indian friend who was a victim of their caste system.
The peaceful buddhist are even now becoming less tolerant.
Religions (organised or not) are all the same if the numbers are big enough. You tend to stick with those of the same religion and attack any other religion that is considered a threat. Whether it be Hindus attacking and burning churches in India as a few years back or Buddhist currently attacking Muslims in Myanmar, Burma, India or Sri Lanka.
I am athiest ( agnostic sometimes, who cares ) but I would rather live in a Christian country than a country without religion. The greatest country the world has ever known prospered under religion and seems to be slipping backwards the more it turns it back to it.
Ronald Reagan once said "Freedom prospers when religion (Christianity) is vibrant." I look at America's past and agree to a certain extent.
It is when religions are force to co-exist in the same country with large numbers on each side that problems arise whether they be of Abraham or mystics.
Religion can bring people together for a greater cause more than anything else. It can also tear people apart more than anything else in exsistence, even race.
As for your first point I find it rather odd. The US spent far more (trillions) during the cold war. The money being spent to fight fight terrorism would still not be spent on social programs but have gone towards building up it's military to compete with the rise of East and resurgence of Russia or some other made-up potential enemy.
