Actually, I think rights should be earned and not given, and likewise, should be taken away if you are not an upstanding, contributing member of society. It makes more sense to me that we be encouraged to face our judgment here on earth every day of our lives, rather than to abide by some set of rules or morals in order to have some sort of ideal afterlife that may or may not even exist. If this life on earth is all we have, I think it makes it that much more precious. Anyway, I'm done bashing religion.
I was going to say pretty much the same thing. What bothers me is how prominent religion is in American society - leaders doing their thing in the name of God, large groups of fundamentalist christian believers picketing funerals of people they deem unworthy... I'm sure many of you can think of lots of examples.
I think it's time that religions be demoted to the realm of mythology where they belong. I mean, come on, it's not gospel.
(Can't take credit, stole that gospel bit from comedian Dara O'Briain)
Cute Overload has some cute pictures but the inane, baby-talk descriptions and comments make me want to choke somebody - preferable the people who write that stuff. On the plus side, I find that depression can be temporarily alleviated by strong emotions such as rage.
Urge to kill... rising. Urge to kill self, fading, fading, gone.
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Actually, I think rights should be earned and not given, and likewise, should be taken away if you are not an upstanding, contributing member of society. It makes more sense to me that we be encouraged to face our judgment here on earth every day of our lives, rather than to abide by some set of rules or morals in order to have some sort of ideal afterlife that may or may not even exist. If this life on earth is all we have, I think it makes it that much more precious. Anyway, I'm done bashing religion.
I was going to say pretty much the same thing. What bothers me is how prominent religion is in American society - leaders doing their thing in the name of God, large groups of fundamentalist christian believers picketing funerals of people they deem unworthy... I'm sure many of you can think of lots of examples. I think it's time that religions be demoted to the realm of mythology where they belong. I mean, come on, it's not gospel. (Can't take credit, stole that gospel bit from comedian Dara O'Briain)
Cute Overload has some cute pictures but the inane, baby-talk descriptions and comments make me want to choke somebody - preferable the people who write that stuff. On the plus side, I find that depression can be temporarily alleviated by strong emotions such as rage. Urge to kill... rising. Urge to kill self, fading, fading, gone.