What American writer Madeleine L’Engle (A Wrinkle in Time) said at left rings true to most educated people around the world.
Monotheistic religion is built around fear. There is no other reason to believe that an omnipotent being is tuned into everything you think and do, and, if He doesn’t like what He sees, will happily sentence you to an eternity of torture.
I seldom criticize others’ beliefs, but this is a concept unworthy of an intelligent species.
More to the point, we’re at a watershed point in human civilization. So many of our planetary woes are built on the idea that my God in the sky is better than yours.
Let it be purged from humankind. If we still have an organized society here in 100 years, we will have long since disposed of this stupidity.
At left we read what Grateful Dead cofounder Jerry Garcia said about the kind of life that he and his fans want.
Unfortunately, there is a roadblock, and it’s called “unfettered capitalism.” As rich people get richer, they tend to become less empathetic to the needs of others, and more capable of manipulating lawmaking processes in their favor.
I present the chart at left, though I do so without any belief that it will change anyone’s thinking.
As dozens of the world’s great thinkers have said over the centuries, Don’t expect that reason will have any effect on people who beliefs were formed without reason in the first place.
Is what we see at left actually true?
Possibly, but no one with the IQ of a turnip believes a word that comes out of these people’s mouths.
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