I would prefer to believe this isn't some kind of test.

The premise of religion, that god has a plan for all of us, is the very reason I hate Thatcherism. I'm sorry to say to the religious, that I'm not that self-centred, and individualistically vain to believe that the world is all about me, or that the processes of creation had me in mind.

I've already written about why I think religion is man made. Its sheer tautology, and hypocrasy already posess the essence of man.

If god does exist, then he picked a pretty lousy species to enforce dogma upon, and expect obedience. We innately have a sense of right and wrong. People wouldn't have suddenly stopped stealing, or commiting adultery because of the 10 commandments. But most wouldn't have been doing that before either.

I find it offensive to suggest I don't have a sense of right and wrong because I'm an atheist. Many religious people do not want their organs to be donated when they die (does having a heart really matter, even if you are in celestial paradise with the dictator?). They don't want to donate blood. They would happily hack off the genitals of young girls and boys. They know that the argument "Even though contraception prevents disease, you shouldn't use it, because I said so" is unconvincing, so they spread lies about how condoms spread disease. Who is in the right?

The presence of debate, also proves that religion is manmade. The three monotheisms have all too much in common, and yet condemn each other with visceral disgust. Consider how the Archangel Gabriel is prostituted to speaking to an illiterate muslim businessman, and a virgin who unfortunately suffered amnesia, as she cannot remember being told that her son is the son of god. Look how Judaism and Islam have warred, but how Islam takes the worst elements about how women should shroud themselves, and how people shouldn't eat pork. This exacerbates the idea that religion is based on half-understood events and rumours.

A film in 1964 called Mondo Cane, showed how Pacific Islanders reacted to seeing Westerners for the first time. They thought that the white visiters were "their long-mourned ancestors, come back at last with goods from beyond the grave." The messiah for the people of Tana, is an American GI called John Frum.

This is markedly similar to the story of how the monotheisms came about. The estimate of how long humans have been here is around 100,000 years. Religion tells us that for 94,000 years, the compassionate god watched women dying in childbirth, and people living in life expectancies of an average of 20 years, with indifference. Then, he sent the evidence of his existance, not to China where they were literate, but to war torn Middle East. Why hadn't the people of Australia, or the Americas heard this trumphant news? Probably, because they had their own fears of life and death, and were worshipping their own gods.

Their pro-life position is greatly hypocritical. On matters where those who are pro-choice, or pro stem-cell research point out that their positions actually often save lives, and ask how else can we save these people, religious fundamentalists often reply with an assertion that little children who might otherwise survive if for stem-cell research, will be vindicated as a sacrificial lamb by being sent to heaven. When that nasty fundamentalist, Mother Teresa said that "Christ loves suffering", she wasn't 'peverting' the words of the bible. She was carrying on a tradition that many had been carrying out for centuries. 

I find that the belief in a North Korean style dictator, and the dogmas that surround it, prove that religion is man made. The vanity complex is reinforced in the first commandment, reminding us of god's superiority over us, whether he created us out of dust or a clot of blood. This seems to be explained more accurately by the hierarchial structures that emporers had at the time that these events suddenly came to pass. Religion has a hatred of sex, which makes the choice of religion over this particular species, an odd one. The hatred of women, and the constant reminder in all religions that they are inferior, proves that this is man made. Why do all religions have in common the idea of a virgin brith? Because of a hatred of female genitalia. We are being told that reproduction is a ghastly process. Sexual repression is what causes the worst fundamentalism, and a hatred of the very thing they desire. And what of homosexuality? Well, homophobia is inherent in many straight men. A distrust of a minority.

I would prefer to believe this isn't some kind of test.

The premise of religion, that god has a plan for all of us, is the very reason I hate Thatcherism. I'm sorry to say to the religious, that I'm not that self-centred, and individualistically vain to believe that the world is all about me, or that the processes of creation had me in mind.

I've already written about why I think religion is man made. Its sheer tautology, and hypocrasy already posess the essence of man.

If god does exist, then he picked a pretty lousy species to enforce dogma upon, and expect obedience. We innately have a sense of right and wrong. People wouldn't have suddenly stopped stealing, or commiting adultery because of the 10 commandments. But most wouldn't have been doing that before either.

I find it offensive to suggest I don't have a sense of right and wrong because I'm an atheist. Many religious people do not want their organs to be donated when they die (does having a heart really matter, even if you are in celestial paradise with the dictator?). They don't want to donate blood. They would happily hack off the genitals of young girls and boys. They know that the argument "Even though contraception prevents disease, you shouldn't use it, because I said so" is unconvincing, so they spread lies about how condoms spread disease. Who is in the right?

The presence of debate, also proves that religion is manmade. The three monotheisms have all too much in common, and yet condemn each other with visceral disgust. Consider how the Archangel Gabriel is prostituted to speaking to an illiterate muslim businessman, and a virgin who unfortunately suffered amnesia, as she cannot remember being told that her son is the son of god. Look how Judaism and Islam have warred, but how Islam takes the worst elements about how women should shroud themselves, and how people shouldn't eat pork. This exacerbates the idea that religion is based on half-understood events and rumours.

A film in 1964 called Mondo Cane, showed how Pacific Islanders reacted to seeing Westerners for the first time. They thought that the white visiters were "their long-mourned ancestors, come back at last with goods from beyond the grave." The messiah for the people of Tana, is an American GI called John Frum.

This is markedly similar to the story of how the monotheisms came about. The estimate of how long humans have been here is around 100,000 years. Religion tells us that for 94,000 years, the compassionate god watched women dying in childbirth, and people living in life expectancies of an average of 20 years, with indifference. Then, he sent the evidence of his existance, not to China where they were literate, but to war torn Middle East. Why hadn't the people of Australia, or the Americas heard this trumphant news? Probably, because they had their own fears of life and death, and were worshipping their own gods.

Their pro-life position is greatly hypocritical. On matters where those who are pro-choice, or pro stem-cell research point out that their positions actually often save lives, and ask how else can we save these people, religious fundamentalists often reply with an assertion that little children who might otherwise survive if for stem-cell research, will be vindicated as a sacrificial lamb by being sent to heaven. When that nasty fundamentalist, Mother Teresa said that "Christ loves suffering", she wasn't 'peverting' the words of the bible. She was carrying on a tradition that many had been carrying out for centuries. 

I find that the belief in a North Korean style dictator, and the dogmas that surround it, prove that religion is man made. The vanity complex is reinforced in the first commandment, reminding us of god's superiority over us, whether he created us out of dust or a clot of blood. This seems to be explained more accurately by the hierarchial structures that emporers had at the time that these events suddenly came to pass. Religion has a hatred of sex, which makes the choice of religion over this particular species, an odd one. The hatred of women, and the constant reminder in all religions that they are inferior, proves that this is man made. Why do all religions have in common the idea of a virgin brith? Because of a hatred of female genitalia. We are being told that reproduction is a ghastly process. Sexual repression is what causes the worst fundamentalism, and a hatred of the very thing they desire. And what of homosexuality? Well, homophobia is inherent in many straight men. A distrust of a minority.