#religion
I just wanted to take a moment to remind everyone that any person who isn't an atheist is dumb and bad and wrong, and should convert immediately.

While many belief systems tell you what is really happening regarding things you've never witnessed or tested for yourself, they are wrong and dumb, but Atheism isn't! It's different because we pretend to understand science instead of pretending to understand an invisible man.

Don't worry, it isn't a religion, so nothing bad can happen.

@AskTheDevil I have recently slipped from comfortable Agnostic ( after all, I *don't* know) into Atheist. What a waste of human time & mind we have spent on religion

@gemswinc Oh, I agree we have wasted a lot of time on religion. That's why I hate to see people plastering the same behaviors on not having one, until it becomes the same as a religion.

I keep encountering atheists who behave just as _disgustingly_ as religious people, only with atheism as their cause.

Justifying harm to others, denigrating others, othering people, insisting on belief without proof.

If atheism is like that, what use is it? At least I could pray to a god to shut up.

@AskTheDevil @gemswinc

I'm with @MLClark on this. It's not the religious stories themselves that are the problem (we're only storytelling humans, after all), it's the terrible choices we make with them...

https://mlclark.substack.com/p/a-reprieve-from-todays-gods-into

@LiseL @AskTheDevil @gemswinc @MLClark

The problem has never been isms, its what humans justify with isms that seems to be the problem.

There's an old saying of "those who can make you believe an absurdity, can convince you to commit an atrocity"

This does not seem exclusive to Religious faith. I think about the shocking violence done to individual in the USSR, or the racial hatred perpetrated independence of faith that has happened all over the world.

@LiseL @AskTheDevil @gemswinc @MLClark

One of these days the lights are going to go out for the last time, and they will either draw up on a new and farther horizon, or they wont.

And it will be what it will be, and I say this as a person with very deep faith and conviction.

I could tell you stories. Things that I remember of a past life, even my death there.

Is that real or a quirk of my mentality? Well I think its real. That and 2 dollars will get you a bag of chips.