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"It is safer to believe in God even if there is no proof that one exists."

-- Blaise Pascal

"Suppose we've chosen the wrong god…Every time we go to church we're just making him madder…"

-- Homer Simpson

“I’ve done a lot of reading and research about religion, because it’s something that fascinates me. What fascinates me is the compulsion or need for many to believe in this nonsense.

A great deal of us seem to have this need to fall back on this crutch of faith and belief. People say to me “Well, it’s all a matter of faith. You don’t need proof.”

Well, faith for me in that sense becomes a synonym for believing a lie and that’s no explanation at all.“

Some part of these religions have to be literally true, otherwise the gods and the saviors depicted inside are just as metaphorical. You scold us about taking things literally, but it is exactly your attitude, your dismissal that has made the religions themselves no better than mere metaphor, fable and fairytale. This isn’t our doing. It’s yours. We’ve just recognized it.

You are the one who has no curiosity. You. You have already denigrated human knowledge - the same knowledge that you rely upon to post your ignorant rants online -  in preference to vague pseudo-profound word salad, where you make shallow claims of depth and ignorant claims to insight.

All of which is underpinned by a No True Scotsman fallacy, wherein you claim to hold or have access to wisdom that neither we nor the “hijacked” can. If you had anything worthwhile - and not eminently laughable - to offer, you would not only be able to explain how to reliably and repeatedly access that wisdom, that knowledge, you would want to. There’s a Nobel Peace Prize with your name on it just waiting for you to teach the world your totally true and not-at-all-made-up stuff, and the world to go “hey, yeah, you’re totally right.” Whenever you’re ready.

Human people are actually wanting to figure things out, and are actively working on them, diligently, carefully. And you shit on them and everything they’re working towards, not to mention everything humans have already achieved, simply because they prefer to figure out useful, accurate answers, rather than vague “spiritual” nonsense that only serves to make yourself feel good about your own fears of death and your own inconsequentiality.

It’s amazingly hypocritical that you ramble so nonsensically, having done more to disassemble religion than anyone else, and then scold us about not being “deep” enough when you don’t even have the slightest concept of the implications of your own rant. You’ve already made gods and saviors metaphorical, and now you want to pretend that noticing this is lacking depth?

We are not the ones making assertions based on nothing more than mere “faith.” If you had any legitimate basis for your belief, you wouldn’t need to resort to the surrender of mere faith, would you?  So your ultimate attempt at an insult can be summarized as “well, you’re just as bad as we are, so there!” Way to shit in your own bed. It takes no faith, no “hard headedness” to reject nonsensical fables. It takes intellectual integrity. It takes caring about truth more than a desperate need for cozy, infantilizing lies.

Calling that a “religion” makes religion completely pathetic and inconsequential. Was this your intentional objective, or did you just not think any of this through?

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