Religion is…
Mad solutions to invented problems to please an imaginary being and avoid non-existent punishments.
atheism
Easy solutions
Homo sapiens will reject any solution to over- population and excess consumption that doesn’t involve killing the other species we share this small planet with, or killing the other humans we share this small planet with.
Sapience
Religion is the proof you can get human beings to believe any nonsense; Science is the proof that you can’t
Corrupt
Give one human being a small amount of power over another and they will inflict small cruelties. Give them absolute power and they will inflict unspeakable cruelties.
But then it always was
“Religious extremism” has become a tautology, not an explanation
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How did this happen?
We have a Prime Minister who claps along to silly hymns, and raises his hands to an imaginary heaven, all the while with a dim-witted smile on his face, and surrounded by identical clones.
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Bomb blast
You’re notgoing to heaven,they’re notgoing to hell,there is noheaven, no hell,bombers andvictims, you’reall just dead.Try living.
The Sun also rises in the East
Nothing is certain in this world except death, taxes, and the absolute certainty that when things seem to be going well, somewhere on the planet, religion will bugger it up.
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With muffled drum
I wasn’t fond of Notre Dame as a building – give me Chartres any day – but so sad to see all that history burning savagely. But seriously, grown men worked there who believed they had the “Crown of thorns”?