Reply #92: We should acknowledge that nothing good comes from religion. [View All]

That's why religionists spend so much energy associating themselves with virtue.

Name any virtue: charity, respect, altruism, honesty, kindness, generosity, love. These all exist independent of religion, but religions claim them, and co-opt them to justify their existence. It's a sordid and dishonest business.

What do we get in return? Guilt, bigotry, rejection, and worst of all, irrational thought. Granted, religion didn't invent these things either, but has adopted them as it's tools, and provided justification for their use. Imagine how much further along our civilization could be without retrograde effects of religion.

I know people will believe stuff, and if they are good people I have no qualms with them. But it's not the nature of the beast to leave people alone.

--IMM