The Lord's Resistance Army Hunts Children in Sudan

http://www.time.com/time/video/player/0,32068,45378815001_1931109,00.html?iid=digg_share

As far as Christianity is concerned, I have little love for it. I think the following sums up my feelings about the religion pretty well:


Yet despite that... I think religion is inherently a fascinating topic. I think it tells us a lot about who we are as humans, it provides exceptionally fertile grounds for examination of cultural evolution as well as for cognitive evolution generally. I also think that while it has potential for great evil that it is more often than not a neutral or net positive factor in our lives. I also approve of traditional behavior not from the perspective of a proponent of non-logical solutions, but from the perspective of one who appreciates, respects, and is intrigued by the simple beauty of such solutions. Deep down I also like to feel kinship with my antecedents, and I'll happily adopt the fiction that my membership in a group helps to define me as a person. For those reasons, I think the following is misguided:

I will say again, Vatican City should be nuked off the face of the earth and the entire catholic church every branch and stem every single cathedral and adherent burned along with them.

I'm against all religion equally from a logical perspective. I.e. I'm against the use of religion in secular areas of life.
But I think that singling any one religion out as particularly more harmful than any other is pretty silly, and I completely disagree that any religions are worthy of eradication. That strikes too far into the realm of thought control for me to be happy with it at all.

your chart is so very eurocentric!  droll.

It's not my chart, but it is representative of my feelings on Christianity.

EDIT: Anyway Christianity is Eurocentric, no?

there must be darkness before light, dude.

edit:  ah, you got me.  foiled!

My opinions of various religious groups depend entirely on how they interact with the secular world.

For instance, I admire the Society of Friends.  On the other hand, I hate the Southern Baptist church.

My beliefs are probably somewhere in the vicinity of Deism.  

Uh, I don't think anybody would sincerely call a group of thugs with no discernible agenda than to sack and loot villages "Christians", especially when they also practice witchcraft, mysticism, and traditional African religion.

You can't trust Africa with ANYTHING!

Society of Friends

I'm 3rd generation atheist on my mother's side, but prior to that, her family were almost all Quakers.

I will say again, Vatican City should be nuked off the face of the earth and the entire catholic church every branch and stem every single cathedral and adherent burned along with them.

The end of the Dark Ages should have been the dissolution of the Catholic Church, with folks going back to their Bible's for the Real Deal, imho

Yes. The real 6000 year old world. And the real punishment for eating meat on a Friday. And all those real contradictions!

No meat on a Friday is Catholicism, which any good Christian will tell you is devil worship.

Except Catholics.
And probably not Eastern Orthodoxers either.

No meat on a Friday is Catholicism, which any good Christian will tell you is devil worship.

Oh snap!

I guess my comments were a bit over the top.

But it was the catholics who sent ships out all over the world and fucked over every one in sight.

Well what did you expect? People don't just surrender their gold and their souls...

Ya gotta "liberate" them.