Recent thoughts

There are many arguments to be made... against those great dangers that are harmful to my delicate sensibilities. I am in a full swing assault on religion as a whole and am immersing myself in current texts to fill my arsenal. I have recently come to realize my evolution from semi-agnostic to full on atheism. Allowing for the freedom of moderate and liberal believers of any faith keeps the door open for the fanatics to practice their corrupt and downright harmful dogmas. It's easy to fight against extremism, but what of the moderates? You only need look at the current state of our union to know that the majority remains unwaveringly religious. Stem cell research, abortion, abstinence, gay marriage... these are all hot topics of our time and topics that the religious right is currently dominating and causing much suffering along the way. What good comes of denying a same sex couple the right to marriage? What good comes from denying science the ability to help alleviate suffering from disease and injury by making stem cell research illegal?

Are you prepared to tell me how a young girl dying of a potentially curable ailment is less significant than a 3 day old blastocyte? Will the religious right help me explain to a 16 year old girl that her life as she knows it is over because abstinence that was taught in school didn't teach her how to use a condom? Will you help me explain to those people suffering from environmental ailments that clean air and clean water don't matter because your Lord and Savior should be showing up anytime in the next 50 years to take care of everything? Let me ask you this... what problems do religious faith actually solve? The only potential one is to give the believer a false sense of hope that somehow they will live in bliss when they leave this world.. Not exactly relevant to the suffering currently going on in the world, and downright selfish when it comes down to it. Besides truly needing something to believe in that is out of this world, people turn to religious faith to feel like their lives have meaning, mission, or purpose. It's the oldest answer to an even older question. "What happens when you die... I go to Heaven... then why don't you just kill yourself?... because God has a plan for me... and how do you know his plan isn't for you to kill yourself?" You need a purpose in your life... you want a mission to go on... here you go! Make this world, the one you're living in right now as morally happy a place as you can. Don't know what moral happiness is?... coming right up...