How history will view us...

[Che Roriniho]

but also ask how many people religion has SAVED.
i know of people who were on the brink of suicide who turned to religion and decided to live on.
one of those people is my uncle, who now lives a good life with a wife and two kids.

I take that uncle, and counter him with my own. Killed by Jewish Terrorists in 1946. His Grandchildren would be my age now.

I also counter him with the Holocaust, Rwanda, 9/11 (and other Islamic Extremism), and Northern Ireland. Total estimated casualties: About 9 Million. And that's only counting the big attacks.

Nine. Million.

They all lie dead because people don't stand up for reason. They all lie dead, because the common theist hasn't the guts to stand up and think. The blood of those Nine million is on the common theists hands.

Nine. Million.

So don't say that we have had a boom in tolerance, because those nine million bodies are proof to the contrary.

Nine Million Bodies. Each one had a life, friends, lovers, and family. Each one made some contribution to the world around them, which was cut short by people thinking that there is a MAN in the SKY. Am I the only one here who sees how utterly irrational that idea is. People have been killed because people think that a MAN IN THE SKY is telling them to. And not just a couple.

Nine Million.




EDIT:

I think the subject of religion is a little off topic, and no matter what people like to believe in things that are bigger than themselves, Religion is respectable outlet, that suffers from the problems as any ideology, extremism.

Except that Religion is utterly, and completely daft. Seriously. Someone has managed to convince people that there is a man in the sky that watches them all the time, and it's the people who refuse to believe this that are the social outcasts. WHAT?