In light of the London bombings and a religious nutcase at work

[toddaa]

Who wasted two hours of everyone in earshot's time haranguing one of my coworkers (another nonbeliever) about how difficult it is to raise rebellious children who refuse to be intolerant of gays, I am now just a plain old atheist. When Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are wiped from the face of the earth, or at least made to stop perputating hatred and fear, then I will go back to my comfortable spiritual metaphor of All is One under the Tao. Until then, no more playing well with others. Tolerance of hatred and fear is suicide.

And I'm not really interested in the empty pleadings of moderate believers. They need to quit complaining about the mean old atheists, and take it up with the mean old Christians and Muslims and Jews who are responsible for the state of the world we currently live in.

[trotsky]

1. I agree completely.

Sorry to hear about the nutcase. Gosh, how terrible, their kids won't share their hatred and prejudices. I should have such problems.

I'm with you, though. Right now, it's out-of-control religiosity that's causing so many problems today. Christians, liberal ones included, should clean up their own house before demanding respect simply for stating they deserve it.

The "big three" monotheistic religions have had well over a thousand years to learn how to play nice with each other, and they just can't. I just don't see how that will ever change.

[onager]

2. Same here!

Bertrand Russell got it exactly right in Why I Am Not A Christian.

IIRC, he said Xians and Communists have a lot in common. Both follow a Sacred Book, and both want to fanatically punish all non-believers.

Of course, the same comments apply to the other two.

Some of those Eastern belief systems beloved by Westerners aren't any better. It's "only a movie," but I recently saw the Indian film Earth, about the 1947 split between India and Pakistan. It was the largest movement of human beings in modern times, and accompanied by horrendous atrocities from both the Muslims and Hindus.