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That's what it is. The cycle of stupidity and intolerance that I endure daily.
For example, today at school, someone I know started flipping out at me because I proved him wrong. It was pretty bad, too.
Picture a kid that is so blindly dedicated to his sect of Christianity that he would let himself be seen as an idiot just to defend it. Imagine a Bible Thumper. Now make that kid 10 times more zealous about it. That's this kid. He pisses me off so much. Every fucking day this kid preaches at me trying to make me "see the light." Fuck off cockbite. I'm so fucking sick of people telling me that I'm wrong. Especially the ones that don't have enough intelligence to realize I don't give a flying fuck about what they're saying.
Anyway, the worst part of it all was when I proved him wrong, it was about a stupid statement HE made about religion. He was telling my friend that Catholics were the ones that burned people at the stake for being witches. UH DING DONG MORON. First off, in England when they burned the people, they were LUTHERAN, not CATHOLIC. Second, when they burned people in Salem, they were P-U-R-I-T-A-N. Still not Catholic. Now, I don't like religion at all. Can't stand it, but what I hate more than that are people that willingly or knowingly spread false statements as the truth.
Even after I told the kid he was wrong, he wouldn't shut up. He says to me "Oh, now you're the expert on religion, Mr. Atheist? Let me tell you something, you'll never see a Babtist burning someone at the stake; we're just better than that."
Who the fuck gave this kid the power to tell people that one group of idiots is better than the next? That's the worst thing on this accursed planet--people who think that they're better than others because of race, religion, body type, or whatever. I thought we established that during the Second World War, or the Civil and Gay Rights Movements, but apparently not.
I'll leave that account at that, so I can move on.
At work, I saw in the paper that there's a Supreme Court hearing happening because there are apparently pedophiles out there that have been confessing to priests. So, wouldn't you think that the most sensible thing is to report it? Well, no. Apparently there is an actual law that says if someone confesses, the priest has to keep that confession confidential. What the fuck? Isn't that setting a broad double standard? I mean, if someone kills someone, or they molest a kid, they can tell the priest and it's ok?
I work at an afterschool program, and if a kid says that someone touched them, we are required, BY LAW to report it immediately. Why? We, the staff, are seen as the link between the kid and the adult world, and it's our lawful duty to report stuff like that when it happens and is told to us.
But what about the link between the purpetrators of these crimes and the rest of the world? Are they exempt because of some doctorate written by a bunch of old men almost 1500 years ago?
This shouldn't even be up for debate. Use some common sense, people.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I don't like religion. It breeds stupid people. There's a bill up for vote in Washington that is trying to ban all stem cell research in the country. Why? Because it's immoral and unethical. Yes. I can see that it's immoral and unethical to try to find ways for blind people to see, and it's obviously immoral and unethical to help paralyzed people walk again, and there isn't a single shread of evidence supporting that helping people with brain damage recover is ethical in any way.
What I see in religion is a singular movement to breed a hatred for those who would resist assimilation. That means, anyone who doesn't share every single belief that that particular religion or sect holds. For example, the Christian belief that gay people are evil, or the Muslim belief that the Christian religion is wrong, etc.
Religion also tries to hold back the release of knowledge because the religious officials don't agree with it. Prime example, Stem Cell Researching. Christians don't think it should happen because the stem cells used in the research come from miscarriaged and aborted fetuses. "Life starts at conception, and goes on after death...blah blah blah...the body is a holy sanctum and must be preserved..." In other words, they don't have a fucking clue what the scientists are doing, and they have their thumbs shoved so far up their own asses that they won't admit when they're wrong.

Bottom line:
Religion = Willful Ignorance.

Once again,

Fuck off.

Good night.