Reply #143: I have an officially mentally ill brother

[MedleyMisty]

His belief in religion showed up at the same time as all his other symptoms - it's definitely not something that he grew up with. No, he didn't believe in religion until he started waving a loaded pistol around and yelling at all of us and believing that he needed to hide in my closet from whoever was coming to get him.

Sorry, but I will continue to call hating other people and wanting them to live by your archaic rules and your puritan morality and supporting the bombing and torturing of people who believe differently than you and wanting your myths to be taught in public schools insane. Mass delusions are still delusions.

Also, this isn't a professional board. I think we can be allowed to talk in colloquial terms here.

And yes, I know that there are liberal and mostly sane people who also believe in religion and who knows, maybe it does inspire them to love rather than hatred. But the fact is that it inspires most of the species to hatred and cruelty and destruction and that we're not going to survive much longer if we don't get rid of it now that people can throw nukes at people who disagree with them over religious myths.

Or if not get rid of it at least somehow take the bite out of it and make it so that it doesn't make humans think of each other as the Other and less than human and okay to torture and kill and so that it doesn't retard our scientific progress or lead people to make myth-based morality into laws that affect everyone, not just those who believe in the myth.