So the government is still trying to get its Religious Hatred Bill passed. This is the bill where the state has to protect people of a religious bent from us nasty secularists, aethists and all other religions that disagree with all other religions.
Who is going to protect my right to criticise all religions as morally wrong. Apart from some of the self-enlightment religions there is not a religion in the world that is not implicated in mass genocide of people who were not of the correct religion.
Throughout history religion has been used to justify the most atrocious acts.
When will the people of the world grow up and realise that all the benefits of religions, such as cohesion of purpose, brotherly love, helping others can be had without all the stupid religious stuff about a higher being.
There is no god. There never was. God (capitalised only because it is the first word in the sentence) was the creation of people who initially understood little of world and so invented beings to explain the world and its workings. After some time it mutated into a way of maintaining control over a population and justifying the unusual and generally abhorant practices of the people at the top.
How can you trust a person to make sane decisions when they believe that god created the world and at their death they will go to heaven or hell.
If you talked to someone who was equally believing in Aliens you would not trust them as much but this is no difference. There is no god and the 'Absence of proof is no proof of absence' argument is just tosh.
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