The Cost of Faith

Are you religious?
What is the cost of YOUR faith?

I am utterly convinced now, that the only reason sentient people choose to have spiritual faith is because they are too weak to face their own or their loved one's mortality.
I am equally also convinced that the general opinion, that "it's good to have religious faith" is humanity's most extreme falsehood. There is an ethos, a feeling, of
"Let her believe whatever gives her comfort;
what harm does it do?"
What harm does it do!!!!

Examine the cost of your religious CHOICE to believe that your fanciful scripture is true.
What is the cost of that weakness?

• ALL deaths caused by the phrase 'God told me to do it'
• Every Person of faith who interfered with a child
• The numerous victims of 'honour' murders
• The Persecution because of sexuality
• Those persecuted because they believe the wrong fairy story
• All lives lost when this or that religion undertakes a, shall we say, 'purity drive'.
• The wasted lives of brainwashed Suicide bombers and their victims

Those innocent lives extinguished before their full measure of days, or psychologically damaged beyond repair, are ALL because you want to believe your childish 'comforting' fairy stories.

"Don't be so silly..." the religious would I suspect reply  "...I'm religious and I'm not killing or assaulting."  
Maybe not, but you are perpetuating the myth - If spiritual nonsense was ridiculed, like any other supposedly supernatural entities, then those who choose an extreme path, would not have god as an excuse, or 'paradise eternal' as an incentive.
Spiritual faith is flim-flam, fakery to appease the weak, and far from 'merely a harmless comfort in an hour of need', it is a cancerous growth on the face of reason, a strident, forceful, buggering, middle finger to those who value rational behaviour over voodoo.

If you are religious, or spiritual, the cost of those deaths is on your hands. The blood spilled by those, whose only difference to you is in the extent to which they believe the fairy story, is a putrid stain on humanity, you and your faith share the blame, and all because you are too weak to accept reality.

Your continuing belief is an embarrassment
Your weakness gets the innocent dead.
And,
while you continue to promote your chosen delusion,
you dare not call yourselves people of peace and love.
You make me sick.

Where did this opinion come from?
Check the news daily for religious idiots, doing their religious idiot stuff.


It's sadly plentiful
Just recently, mostly from the last month

• The Genocide of Iraqi Christians
  http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?grpId=3659174697241980&articleId=281474977765874
• Pakistani Christians murdered over rumor
  http://www.onenewsnow.com/Persecution/Default.aspx?id=634292
  No longer available, however, "One News Now", the site that published the article, now do a running list of stories featuring the religious persecuting each other. OneNewsNow.com
• Ethno-religious crisis: The north and the rest of Nigeria
  http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/08/08/ethno-religious-crisis-the-north-and-the-rest-of-nigeria/comment-page-1/
• Blackwater boss accused of 'crusade to wipe out Muslims'
  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1204768/Iraqis-seek-justice-Blackwater-boss-accused-crusade-wipe-Muslims.html
• Three are sentenced to death over taxi bombs
  http://news.scotsman.com/world/Three-are-sentenced-to-death.5532952.jp
• Murders most foul in the name of 'honour'
  http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/NEWS/Sunday-TOI/View-From-Venus/Murders-most-foul-in-the-name-of-honour/articleshow/4820852.cms
• What's it like being a gay Muslim?
  http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/jul/29/gay-muslims-britain

Or, from a little further back, from the Too Many Questions Stupidity Archive

• Israel and Palestine - a love story?
• The Religious are so Weird
• The Religious in a Nutshell?
• Coexistence, Tolerance and Understanding
• Meanwhile... in Jerusalem - AGAIN!
• The Pope Regrets! Big Deal!

More here
Religion - Refuge of the Weak and Powerless?


I'll let Laci Green have the final word, as she says it so eloquently...

Why Atheists Care About YOUR Religion

This is one of the Too many questions

PEACE
Crispy

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