re thoughts on christians excerpts from netnews alt atheism apr re thoughts on christians by dave fuller portal hq vi i m sick of religious types being pampered looked out for and worst of all respected more than atheists there must be an end in sight i think it d help if we got a couple good atheists or even some good steadfast agnostics in some high political offices when was the last time we had an openly atheist president have we ever i don t actually know these aren t rhetorical questions how bout some supreme court justices one thing that really ticked me off a while ago was an ad for a news program on a local station the promo said something like who are these cults and why do they prey on the young ahem ever hear of baptism at birth if that isn t preying on the young i don t know what is i used to be ack barf a catholic and was even confirmed shortly thereafter i decided it was a load of bs my mom who really insisted that i continue to go to church felt it was her duty to bring me up as a believer that was one of the more presumptuous things i ve heard in my life i suggested we go talk to the priest and she agreed the priest was amazingly cool about it he basically said that if i didn t believe it there was no good in forcing it on me actually i guess he wasn t amazingly cool about it his response is what you d hope for indeed expect from a human being i s pose i just didn t expect it i find it absurd that religion exists yet i can also see its usefulness to people facing up to the fact that you re just going to be worm food in a few decades and that there isn t some cosmic purpose to humanity and the universe can be pretty difficult for some people having a readily available pre digested solution to this is pretty attractive if you re either a gullible enough b willing to suspend your reasoning abilities for the piece of mind or c have had the stuff rammed down your throat for as long as you can remember religion in general provides a nice patch for some human weaknesses organized religion provides a nice way to keep a population under control blech chris chris leger sophomore carnegie mellon computer engineering remember if you don t like what somebody is saying you can always ignore them
