Religion is a Mental Illness

If your god was good, why would you have to try to explain anything about what it does - or doesn’t - do?

All the things you should be doing but aren’t, all the things you are doing but shouldn’t... and coming up with excuses why it doesn’t apply, why you’re the exception, why it’s a metaphor, or creating “what ‘god’ actually meant to say.”

How do they find time in the day for anything else?

From “Born Again Again” - “Episode 06: We Told Our Parents”

(On “you must have just had a bad experience with religion”)

Katie: Whenever a Christian comes back and says “it seems as though you’ve had a negative experience” or “it seems at though you went to the wrong church” or “it seems like you went to the wrong youth group” or “had a bad pastor” or anything, if you lump them all together, you see that they’re just excuses, and also what it is is super-belittling, because it’s basically saying that “you had a really bad reaction to it and you’re not strong enough”, like, like, it’s never God’s fault, it’s just basically that person who did whatever they did to you. It’s, there’s no trust given to me as an individual to make up my own mind. And, it was, I find it very, very belittling.

Joe: [...] It seems belittling, because it seems like, people who say “you must have gone to the wrong church” it’s almost like they’re saying like “well, I see you’ve gone through something really traumatic and you’ve had a really hard time leaving your faith, but actually I understand your problem a little bit better than you do, and it’s, I actually know that it’s probably cause your church was just wrong.” You know, and it’s like, come on, you have no idea what we’ve been through.