Check out my substack post about atheism and religion

Hey, I've dipped my writing toe in the Substack water. Today I decided to give Substack a try by setting up my account and writing a post about atheism and religiosity -- just in time for Easter!

I did my best to explain how us atheists view religious belief. It's often a source of comfort, which is good. But when that belief is viewed as objective truth rather than subjective faith, bad things can happen in our highly political and divisive times.

Check out "Atheist me speaks to religious you."

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>> But when that belief is viewed as objective truth rather than subjective faith, bad things can happen in our highly political and divisive times.<<

Everything that exists, every idea, can and is used in a good way an in a way that causes bad things to happen.

Religion is just ONE of these things the same as Atheism.

There is no inherent good or bad to religion, it is all attributed by subjective human beings.

In THAT sense those of the NRA are right .. riffles do not shoot, they are shot by humans and for their own motives.

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Even the objective truth, if there exists such an thing, can be used to harm others, their reputation, their welfare etc.

[Dolus]

"But when that belief is viewed as objective truth rather than subjective faith, bad things can happen in our highly political and divisive times."

And in your substack essay (as I suspected before I even began reading it) you didn't give even one example of how "objective" religious belief is harming anyone in today's American society.

True, there are parts of the world where "objective" religious belief is harming people. Every week there are dozens of violent crimes committed in the name of Islam. But such religious violence hasn't been seen in the U.S. for hundreds of years. Why "us Atheists" keep fretting about the dangers of religion itself is an epic strawman.

How much better it would be if for like, once, you turned your lights on examining the actual harm created by progressives in treating "science" as a religion. They do it this way: Take a far out progressive concept, claim that "science" validates it, and then demand that everyone is society accept these baleful, weird, deviant, an abundantly unnatural ideas. Or else.

Oh, so many examples of this. The mentally ill can become women and compete in women's sports, castration drugs are a good thing for confused children, our entire economy should be focused on "defeating climate change," the disarmament of the public, taking jobs away from the competent and giving them to people of a certain skin color, and the absolute freak out over a flu that (look around you) only affected the very old and very sick. The list of lies goes on and on. and the harm in the last few years alone is incalculable. But no, ignore all that, let's focus on religion as if it's a big, big problem.