Doug’s Dynamic Drivel

In my younger days I was a big fan (I still am but I don’t read as much as before - not thrilled with the new crop of formula writers) and one of my all time favourites was I haven’t read any of his works in years but today Norm reminded me of why I so enjoyed his writing, with this quote from “” (via one of Norm’s commentators) or possibly (my recollection)

The most preposterous notion that H. sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history. The second most preposterous notion is that copulation is inherently sinful.

In his day Heinlein took on topics that few would touch and did it in a masterful way. Yes his did not always match mine but he was such a masterful writer, with a firm grasp on his subjects that it was impossible to put his books down, and no doubt they did influence my political bent somewhat. As you can see his thoughts on are ones I can thoroughly agree with. For millenniums organized religions, and in particular monotheistic Judea-Christian-Islamic religions have used sex as a tool to control their believers. The church pretty much perfected that scam. The reverberations of that control cloud people’s judgment to this day, and influence political life in all areas.

Or, as Shelley said today in another context

Let’s also forget that most serial murders in this country are typically committed by , so are most lynchings and beatings, and that no war has ever been caused by an atheist. In fact, I can’t think of one single negative act ever committed in the name of atheism in this country. So as the whole ‘moral’ thing goes, the religious suck at it.

carrying on with the general theme of religion there’s what Stu said today as well

The peaceful Mahatma Gandhi once said “I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” And a lot of that is due to God’s message being filtered through The One True Church™ - chose one of many - via a heirarchy of paedophilic priests, all with their own agenda, only interested in the laying on of hands - preferably on the smallest choirboy.

or how about this one

Although most religious traditions call on the faithful to serve the poor, a large cross-sectional survey of U.S. physicians found that physicians who are more religious are slightly less likely to practice medicine among the under-served than physicians with no religious affiliation.

In the July/August issue of the Annals of Family Medicine, researchers from the University of Chicago and Yale New Haven Hospital report that 31 percent of physicians who were more religious–as measured by “intrinsic religiosity” as well as frequency of attendance at religious services–practiced among the under-served, compared to 35 percent of physicians who described their religion as atheist, agnostic or none.

There’s nothing quite like a good old-fashioned organized religion to breed hypocrisy. in general and fundamentalist religion in particular is , just plain evil. That’s my take at least (and no you don’t need to have religion to have a concept of - they just want you to believe you do.)

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