This is a must read for everyone. I really believe that religion is the epitome of the issues of today, which I'm quite sure will be to the contrary of what many people have been lead to believe.
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A lot of people in this country believe in end-times. There will be this great reckoning, the rapture.
But, if you believe that the world is going to come to an end, perhaps any day now. Does it not drain ones motivation to improve life on earth while we’re here?
Megiddo, Israel is the very spot many Christians believe life on earth will end. The irony of religion is that because of its power to divert man to destructive courses. The world actually could come to an end.
The hour is getting very late. To be able to indulge in having key decisions made by religious people, By irrationalists, by those who would steer the ship of state not by a compass, but by the equivalent of reading the entrails of a chicken. George Bush prayed a lot about Iraq, but he didn’t learn a lot about it.
Faith, means making a virtue out of not thinking. It’s nothing to brag about. For those who preach faith, and enable and elevate it, are intellectual slave holders, keeping mankind in a bondage to fantasy and non-sense that has spawned and justified so much lunacy and destruction.