Just a thing to think about before we go taking down religion. More people have died because of genocidal humanist regimes in the 2oth century than in all the religious wars in history. I'd keep it around even if i didn't believe, just for your sakes.
The bloodiest religious war was the 30 years war...Estimates say it could have been between 6-14 million. The Crusades may have totalled up to 9 million. 1. Robertson, History of Christianity: p168
Most other wars have not even approached 1 million
genocide by Germans in addition to the 6 million Jews there were between 15-30 million total killed by genocide (not counting the loss of life by war) RJ Rummel estimates the Russians killed over 61 million in their genocide and the Chinese Communists over 35 million by genocide. WW2 itself the bloodiest of all the wars was not quite 30 million.
Here is a quote by J. Bradford DeLong
University of California at Berkeley
But the greater power of governments to organize and carry out purges, the sharpening of ethnic conflicts, and the rising power of violent nationalism were, even together, not enough to trigger the genocides of this century. That required two political movements: Communism and Fascism. And both Communism and Fascism were movements that had economic ideology at their core.
I say you all re-consider the ideology of atheism, and the idea that all things humans, animals, plants, rocks are equal.
Also re-consider agnosticism. Your tagline says only the truth matters. If that is the case don't just say, "it matters, but I just have no idea what it is." Get busy, figure it out, search for the truth because it matters. |