Some of the things I value most are honour, truth, courage, and justice.
None of these attributes are welcome in religions.
Where is the honour in ignoring evidence to allow yourself to believe in the god you have chosen? If you see evidence that counters the existence of your god and refuse to acknowledge it as real, you are dishonouring yourself by being untruthful to yourself.
It takes a lot of courage to question your religious faith. If there's one thing religions do their best to discourage, it's the questioning of faith. They want you docile and believing.
God gives man free will, knowing man will use it, then punishes him for it. God commands you to love him completely, (What an egomaniac!), or else! Is this justice?
Where is the Justice in religion, when a pope who preaches love sits in a palace of ridiculous wealth while millions starve? When pedophile priests are sheltered from the law in Vatican City? When churches pay no taxes but constantly meddle in politics to create laws that support their religion?
Religions have told people for so long to believe or they will go to hell, they have come to believe that not questioning their beliefs is the highest form of morality. Self delusion based in fear has become more desirable than reason.
Yes... cowardice is considered a more worthy attribute than the courage to see and act on reason.
When you decide on faith over reason to avoid going to Hell, you are saying, "I will love you God! I will obey you God! Just please don't torture me!"
God is not love. God is a bully.
Faith is not a virtue. Faith is cowardice.
Faith is mean nothing word. It is a nonsensical mantra used as a shield to protect the faithful from the realisation that they are not moral people; that they are cowards.
What else could you possibly call a person who fearfully and wilfully turns their back on evidence, so they can continue to believe a lie that keeps them is a relationship of brutality and fear disguised as love?
They are cowards and they are lost in the fear that their religion purposely and maliciously implanted in them as children.
I have debated hundreds of faithful Christians. Not one had the courage to truthfully look at why they believe in their god or why they thoughtlessly and habitually dismiss evidence that might test their faith.
Not one.
The sad part is, Christians will think that's a good score.
I once had a Jéhovah witness ask me if I was open to the possibility that there was a God. I told her sure if she could show me some evidence. She asked if I was willing to discuss the matter. I said I would only do so if she was willing to accept that there might not be a God.
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