Saturday, February 6, 2010

Being awesome is incredibly frustrating.

The logic circles around to the same answer every time. If religion makes people happy, should I really want to take that away from them?

But what really makes people happy? Good food, warm houses, health, entertainment, enlightenment, love and care make people happy. Religion, too, can make some people happy, or at least that's what they say. But it also makes others miserable.

And it stands in the way of future happiness. Garbage, by replacing education, threatens our ability to advance. Our ability to advance is necessary to help take care of the growing population, to combat new diseases, to end conflicts and to keep the planet inhabitable.

It's not just that. Our social, cultural, societal ills. We need to understand them to fix them. Believing God will take care of it is not a viable solution. Believing God will take care of it sometimes leads to the problem itself.

This can all be demonstrated. I am and always will be willing to demonstrate it. To show the harm and encourage true and unbiased understanding. But no one really wants to hear it. They like their religion. Who am I to take it from them? Should I really want to do it?

The logic circles around to the same answer every time.

I keep telling the wall, but the wall won't come down.

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