Ron Ken Hooper, advocate for humanity, equality, fair opportunities for a living wage, education, health care and affordable housing for all, posts the following. like Christopher Hitchens, a”cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. Its a battle you cant hope to win - its a battle thats going to go on forever. Its part of the human condition. Religion: Comedy for the intelligent. False unreality for the ignorant. As Susan B. Anthony said “I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires”. And Ron Hooper adds “their bigotry, discrimination and prejudice.” “The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. Friedrich Nietzsche.” Atheists like Bertrand Russell, Albert Camus, John Paul Sartre, Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins encouraged discussions, debate and parallel ideas that stimulate critical thinking and explain why theistic religions are based on absurd superstitions. The Christian religion is the active denial of scientific knowledge through illusions of metaphors and faith based on scriptures, the evil Constantine selected for the new testament on 323 AD, to control the Roman empire and wage war against his political enemies, disregarding more ethical and peaceful scriptures in the dead sea scrolls. Theistic Religions are only political tools, used for power, money and control, to kill and discriminate against people and cause war, inequality and obstruct science and critical thinking, rejecting the intelligent, ethical and moral teachings of Plato, Socrates and Aristotle, in favor of absurd, persecuting, hatful and ridiculous beliefs for 3,000 years. We should no longer excuse murder, slavery, misogamy, intolerance, the discrimination, suffering, poverty, inequality and bigotry in the bible, or excuse tea bagger fronts like the National Liberty Foundation by blaming Obama for the greed of the rich and their screwing the poor out of a living wage, health care and education or coping out by saying those were the times. When the evil Roman general Constantine selected and translated a small portion of gospels, written by goat herders, generations after the death of Jesus, to create the first New Testament, to defeat and kill his enemies and rule the Roman Empire. The contemporaneous writings of Aristotle, Socrates and Plato contained the ideas that any good god would endorse more than the bible, Their writings are more ethical and compatible with science and critical thinking and they provided the cornerstone for our constitution, not the bible.
Posted on: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 00:56:37 +0000
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