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-Zarathustratosphere (Youtube Account name)

I saw this comment on a video and loved it, the video was a comedians rant about…well ignorance and his battle against it, and of course since the video mentions religion, the fundamentalists have to jump into play and attack the comedian’s stance, fans of course argue back which then pretty much makes up the entirety of the comment section, but this one stood out as a gem and I wanted to share it because I found it able to be applied in most arguments about science and religion and such.

This one was Tori’s idea…

Bill Maher

“Your god is the reason my girlfriend might not ever be treated as well as me.

Your god is the reason homophobia is rampant in my community.

Your god is the cause of more pain than you’ll ever know.

Fuck your god.”

Gotta love the truth.

(Note that I didn’t proofread for grammar or spelling mistakes)

When I was little I got in trouble with my mom, and I was fucking pissed, like really pissed, that kind of pissed only a 4-6 year old can feel.
I wanted to make my mom mad. I wanted her to be as pissed as I was. So I decided to strike a low blow, right into the one thing I knew she held dear.
I said to her that I don’t believe in god.
She said that I only said that to upset her and left me in my room to think.
And the more and more I thought about it in my 4-6 year old brain the more and more I realized that, maybe I did mean it. I’ve prayed that people get better who are sick but they’ve died still. I prayed about tons of bullshit that never happens. So I decided that I didn’t believe in god. My parents decided that my sinful ways could not be tolerated. So my mother brought over my grandma (She knew she’d need the big guns) and a book titled “Why God Exists” the contents of which were basically a 1,2,3 on how to brainwash a child who has a very small understanding of the world into believing in god. Of course I wondered why god was different from other gods. Because I knew there were other religions. Eventually I gave into the pressure from my parents and grandma, sucked it up said I was sorry and “converted” back.
Then in 9th grade, prop 8 came about, the California proposition threatened to rip away the right to marriage for gays in the state. I had gay friends and wasn’t gunna let this shit go by even if I couldn’t vote, so with some buddies and the intersection by Sunrise Mall, we joined in on a large bi-opinionated protest. We argued with Russian-ass-clinchers, black bible thumpers, and the dumbass republicans who voted for Bush. We screamed back and forth with these people and told them what morons they were. I realized however, that although I argued using our country’s beliefs of equal rights these people wouldn’t shut the fuck up about the bible…I felt like the whole protest was basically, people with at least half a brain vs people without any brains. They couldn’t argue using anything but the bible. I got called a fag, I got spit on, and while running into the mall to grab drinks with my friends some guys in a yellow truck with “YES ON 8” painted on the side kept driving at us revving their engines, screaming out the window that god hates me.
So after that my already doubtful mind was convinced, religion is dangerous.

Its possible to break out of being brainwashed by religion and also, if you were don’t take it personally, your parents were brainwashed to brainwash you, by their parents who were brainwashed by their parents and so forth, its a pattern that must be broken.
So if you’re religious think about it. Think about how much of that bible is true, and think about the hypocrisy around you “love thy neighbor” “KILL THE FAGS!!!”
I’d love to see a religion that purely was based off Jesus and not his daddy. His daddy was a douchenozzel who killed Jews with snakes if they doubted him for a second (Numbers 21:6), exterminated all life on the planet but 1 family and a pair of every animal, and kills everyone who works on Sunday (Leviticus 23:30)
So yeah.
Think about shit homies.
Good night.