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Originally Posted by ShellyCrash
I understand where some of you are coming from, but as evil as organized religion can be faith can also be a very positive force.
I am 100% for a further separation of church and state, I hate how the "moral majority" and the christian coalition seem to still have such strong pull on our legislature. But as mad as they make me, I wouldn't consider myself anti religion.
Some people just need to believe.
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It isn't organized religion that has the positive effect. It is the personal belief in a higher power, which I have no problem with whatsoever. I am a theist myself, but my concept of God is not based on some outdated racist book of fairy-tales that tells me to shove my religion down the throats of others. My problem is with the ignorance of people who on the one hand say that the theory of evolution is a ridiculous, unproven, unlikely theory, and on the other have no problem believing that Eve was magically created when God took one of Adam's ribs. That is just stupidity on a level that is simply inexcusable. But that isn't what really bothers me. It is the way that these fools have been duped into a political ideology by people looking to control others. Outside of government, there is no institution the controls people like religion. The way of life in countries like Iran and Afghanistan should be more sobering to Americans. Iran was a secular state until radicals decided to speak for everyone and overthrow the Shaw. In the USA, religious conservatives are FAR MORE involved in the political process and are systematically looking to dismantle secular government and force a religious theocracy on everyone. They are fond of calling Muslims brutal beasts, but do you honestly think they would be any better? Many within that movement advocate the execution of abortion doctors and unrepentant homosexuals.