Why I hate religion, addendum

The Cobb County school stickers on evolution were thankfully ruled to be unconstitutional after the ACLU sued the ignorant and bass-ackwards school board.

"In ruling that the stickers violate the constitutionally mandated separation between church and state, U.S. District Judge Clarence Cooper ruled that labeling evolution a 'theory' played on the popular definition of the word as a 'hunch' and could confuse students... Due to the manner in which the sticker refers to evolution as a theory, the sticker also has the effect of undermining evolution education to the benefit of those Cobb County citizens who would prefer that students maintain their religious beliefs regarding the origin of life,' Cooper wrote in his ruling."


We have already suffered through the Dark Ages, which essentially stopped any scientific studies and inquiry. American Christians are trying to send us BACK to the Dark Age.

Why do you think that first few years after Christianity AD were called the Dark Age? I think it is because the Church was more powerful than government, that peasants feared the Church, and anyone who questioned the truth of the Church were ostracized or even killed.

Does the sun revolve around the earth? Galileo had a "theory" that it didn't, and the Church had him jailed for that blasphemy. Here is the real funny part: the Pope did not concede that he was correct or issue a formal apology until 1992. The CATHOLIC CHURCH DID NOT CONCEDE THAT THE EARTH REVOLVED AROUND THE SUN UNTIL 1992!!!!!! We put a MAN ON THE MOON in 1969!!!!!!!

Thank God I am an atheist. Otherwise I would be very upset at God about the people he picks to represent him on earth.

The Renaissance means "rebirth" in French. It followed the Dark and Medieval Ages. It really was a rebirth, because free inquiry into science and the arts was protected from religious persecution, thanks to some very rich and influential noblemen. Funny how humanity had to be reborn after monotheistic religion had ravaged the planet with ignorance.

The Age of Enlightenment followed the Renaissance, and the founding fathers of our country were Enlightenment thinkers. Many claimed atheism in their writings. They had faith in science and democracy (whoopsie!) and humanity. They separated the church and the state intentionally, because history had taught them what evils the church could perform if given the power to rule. And yet they loved freedom so much that they did not try to destroy the church. Freedom of religion, of speech, of press, of assembly. Freedom! In freedom we trust, not God (although our funny-money dollars would like us to believe otherwise).

And now the Christians in our own neighborhoods, all across the Bible Belt, who have never cracked open a book except the Bible (and it is doubtful that they have ever actually read that) want to undermine the scientific teaching of evolution. They want to send us back to the Dark Ages.

I was lied to in high school by these assholes. Thank GOD that my biology still taught us the theory of evolution. And the FACTS that support it.

But what about those children that can never know the difference? I will not stand for this! Religion is a poison, and I will do everything in my power to educate people about the damage it has done and will continue to do to humanity if left unchecked.