Reply #125: ARE you a lowly idiot? if not, stop with the soapboxing....(rant)

[A HERETIC I AM]

If you arent, then what are you complaining about? Secularists have been dragging the faithful forward tooth and nail for centuries. From Galileo to the current arguments of placing so called "Intelligent design theory" in science textbooks, Freethinkers and progressives have moved mankind forward. George Carlin said: "The only good thing to come out of religion was the music" I add, architecture and maybe some literature.
BTW...since you are Catholic, if you want to believe that the all powerful, all knowing, omnibenevolent creator diety of all the known universe and all the life forms in it is an invisible jewish fella that lives in the sky, more power to you. If your faith in god makes you a better person then i am happy for you and i am all for it. However, the history of religious faith in the common era demonstrates the contrary. Kindness and acceptance of discord and heresy is CERTAINLY not a strong point in the faiths of the god of Abraham. That history is SOAKED in the blood of countless humans and, as another poster said, has done as much to teach hate among mankind as it has taught love. Look....I was raised Episcopalian. I wanted to believe all that stuff and i did, for a long time. But i came to realize that hoping there is a loving, kind, gentle old WHITE GUY that knows everything and will be there to comfort me when i die is just childish, arrogant, racist, nonsensical, narrowminded wishful thinking. I also learned that the story of a saviour god born on the winter solstice and killed in the spring equinox is a tale repeated dozens and dozens of times thruout the millenia. It is a play. A "Passion Play. An allegory for the movement of the sun through the heavens and the seasons. Nothing more. The story of Jesus is not original. It is rehashed ancient allegory and myth.

"When you realize why you know the gods of the Greeks and the Romans are mythical, then you will know why i think the same of your god" and also this: there is something on the order of 2000 gods that have been created by mankind. You disregard 1999 of those. I just disregard one more than you do.