last one about religion for a while, I promise

[miriam_e]

It would be nice if the different religions would stop jostling each other for power over people's minds and just let us atheists alone. We don't try to force our beliefs down religious throats, I don't see why they have to hassle us so much. I don't know how many times I've been brought to my door early on Sunday morning by religious people wanting to convert me.

What is really weird is when I'm at social gatherings and the religious ones start to go on about god this and pray about that. If I stand up for my position and point out the mistakes in their logic they become insulted. It is like the old days when people polluted your air with cigarette smoke they'd get annoyed if you objected. Likewise religious people feel they can pollute the mind-space with impunity, and become annoyed if asked not to. They somehow think it infringes upon their rights.

I'd like laws that prevent people from spouting religion in public places and law suits against those who would damage the impressionable minds of youth by contaminating them with toxic religious memes. It might finally force moslem, christian, and other religious zealots to put a sock in it.

No more from me about religion for a while. I find I get too depressed by it.

Comments

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

You know the really warped thing about the whole witch thing is that the original texts don't say anything about witches at all. It was a mistranslation. If properly translated the meaning is more correctly that you won't let a poisoner live among you. Nothing about killing even. The implication is more that they should be turfed out of the village. No witches, just poisoners. And for that silly mistranslation heaven knows how many people (mostly women) got it in the neck. Truly disgusting. If there really was a god it would either be very embarrassed about us absurd creatures or would be a psychopath.

[ratfan.livejournal.com]

By original texts do you mean the Bible? Sounds like the mistranslation which stands at the root of the Christ tale. The Hebrew term for "young woman" was translated as "virgin." I have that from a Hebrew-speaker :-)

What I meant by telling the de Frias story, though, was that if a Spanish Inquisitor could actually be that sane, perhaps there's hope for even the religious weirdos of the modern day?

Salutations


Ratfan