Religion is a Mental Illness

You can’t seriously be this foolish or ignorant.

Are you completely unaware that even though your god of slavery, genocide, torture, jealousy and narcissism doesn’t exist (indeed, cannot exist), people who believe in such gods do exist? Like, there are actually real people in the world who think they’re real, just like there are people who think the world is flat, even though it’s not?

I don’t care what silly superstitions you believe in your private head. I can, and have, defended people’s right to think what ever stupid notions they want. Even that’s not the problem, though.

These beliefs don’t remain in people’s heads. They start wars, they influence laws, they deny science, they affect the world around them, they assume themselves to be the default, and declare themselves to be the gold standard, to the detriment of everybody else. The god is harmless and ultimately irrelevant. What belief in the god authorizes the humans to do is not harmless or irrelevant. Nor the moral certainty of the divine creature they themselves author. And promoting it as a reasonable way to behave in society, particularly to impressionable children subject to their indoctrination, manipulation and terror, is not harmless or irrelevant either.

Would it bother you to have laws passed that correspond to the beliefs of the Jedi in Star Wars? How could it bother you to know that children died because their parents believed in Force Healing instead of doctors? The Force doesn’t exist, so how could you be offended by it? You don’t believe in it, so why fight against having the world shaped by people who think it does? How could you object to Jediism being taught in schools?

Would it bother you to have Flat Earth taught in schools? Are you willing to fly on a plane constructed with Flat Earth principles? You don’t believe the Earth is flat, so how could you be offended or bothered by it, or fight against something you don’t believe in?

What about Sharia? You don’t believe Muhammad is the prophet of Allah and that the quran is his revealed word, so why not just wear the hijab and pray five times a day to Mecca? Why not let the hospitals administer camel urine in place of medicine. How could you be offended, why would you fight against something that you don’t believe in? (You’re not an Islamophobe, are you?)

I lose no sleep over your stupid, imaginary blood-god, trapped within the pages of your multiply translated, stolen, forged, anonymously authored superstitions written by people who weren’t there. (Seriously. Go read the bible all the way through, then go read how it was made; it’s not how you think.)

I lose sleep over the fact the people from your religion declare themselves immune to COVID and then go infect others. I lose sleep over the fact Xians kill their children with faith healing, and then get immunity from prosecution. I lose sleep over ex-Muslims being arrested and executed for blasphemy, and women being arrested for indecency for not wearing hijab. I lose sleep over the fact that more Americans believe in angels than accept (and understand) evolution or anthropogenic climate change. I lose sleep over children growing up with horror stories of a judgmental sky monster who they can never escape, who will punish them for thoughtcrime and normal biological impulses. I lose sleep over the fact believers like you think your beliefs are unassailable, and we’re not allowed to describe them in an uncomplimentary (i.e. accurate) way.

You shape your world around these silly myths. To the extent that you are completely baffled by people from outside your little bubble who don’t share them, that they could have any objection whatsoever to beliefs, held with nothing more than mere “faith”, intruding beyond the brain of the individual believer. Your failure to understand the problem, that some people don’t want to participate in the world of your religion, nor be obliged to collaborate with your delusion, is itself part of the problem.

That’s like asking why an oncologist spends time battling cancer. It’s only “hate” to the cancer. They love their work, and I love mine.

Criticizing ideas, especially when they can’t even be verified to be true, isn’t “hate,” no matter how personally invested in them people are. Otherwise you must concede that criticizing the KKK is “hate.”

If you spent more than 10 seconds reading my posts, without your triggered feelings activated, you’d realize I’m against bad ideas because I’m pro-people.

Peddle your patently false accusations somewhere else. Attempts at emotional manipulation in order to avoid scrutiny are nothing but dishonest deflection and will get you nowhere.

And maybe stop “loving” selfishly. Literally putting your own feelings above everything else, including my freedom of expression. Trying to pass off valid criticism as “hate” solely because you don’t agree. Attempting to extract compliance by emotional manipulation for your particular personal convenience. That’s selfish.

I neither need or seek your approval.