Problematic Religion

I talk about religion a lot because I think it is a huge roadblock to a sustainable and peaceful world. The whole concept of religion is wrong on many levels. Without religion people would be forced to be RATIONAL .... errr, okay, well maybe at least MORE RATIONAL. It's like .... take away a kid's shovel in the sandbox and it's harder for him to throw sand, at least it's with less sting and accuracy.

A few Holy Bible versus that really freak me out:

Deuteronomy 22:28-29 - Rape a woman, have a witness, and you will be forced to marry her (wink, wink). This is how I know that the Bible was written by men (sorry, not God).

Exodus 21:9-11 - You can sleep with your wife AND your female slaves — as many as you want to, as long as you keep them fed and clothed. Damn, God lets guys have all the fun.

Deuteronomy 21:10-14 - Go to war, conquer a country, and take any girl you want home with you. Oh, you have to shave her head, and if you don't like her you can let her go after a month.

The point being, the Bible is not moral at all. And if all the stuff above is "wrong" then why not pull it out of the holy book? I mean, shit, little kids are reading this stuff.

I'm sure religious folks will try to justify the verses above with some sort of twisted logic, but the truth is you really can't. THIS PROVIDES AN EXAMPLE of why humanity is so sick and dysfunctional.

Maybe it's just time to let go and start moving forward. Maybe those that cling to their religion should start clinging to something else.

Someone once asked me what my religion is: it's reality, man. Take it for what it is — the cold, hard truth. As a child I was taught that if you say the three-sentence prayer, you get to spend billions of years with the Nice Man upstairs. If you refuse to say the prayer, you spend billions of years with the Bad Man downstairs, and not to mention you are swimming in a burning lake. So, as an 8-year-old kid I was no idiot — I said the prayer.

And to this day I'm ANGRY because religion gets an exception and it becomes "not nice" and "politically incorrect" to criticize someone's beliefs. But the TRUTH is, religion is more than just a myth or fable — it is a LIE, and we all know that lying is bad. So, live the lie and play the game, while the entire world goes to hell. Play the game well and have fun.

My humble rant for the evening.

The Goose