I hate how religious America is

[Anonymous]

I second that. What a hateful bigot. and uneducated or ill-educated. By the way, it's "snake handling" not that i've ever even seen it done. What EXACTLY does America do in the name of religionthat is so offensive to you OP? Our coinage says "in God we trust"? How would you like England with a monarch's head on the coinage instead. Or maybe Rome - now there was a fair, prefect society with no stratification. You have no idea how lucky you have it here - no matter who or what you are. if you are unhappy, please leave.

[Anonymous]

This is why I like living in DC. Fewer religious people and the ones who are tend to keep it to themselves.

[Anonymous]

The problem with religion is that it involves a "truth" that trumps others' desires and beliefs, not to mention actual truth.

[Anonymous]

Check out "Americans United for Separation of Church and State" https://www.au.org It sounds like it would be right up your alley. (You can still be religious and pro-separation of church & state. )

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Check out "Americans United for Separation of Church and State" https://www.au.org It sounds like it would be right up your alley. (You can still be religious and pro-separation of church & state. )

Side note, because it seems so many people assume those for separation of church & state are atheists.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I second that. What a hateful bigot. and uneducated or ill-educated. By the way, it's "snake handling" not that i've ever even seen it done. What EXACTLY does America do in the name of religionthat is so offensive to you OP? Our coinage says "in God we trust"? How would you like England with a monarch's head on the coinage instead. Or maybe Rome - now there was a fair, prefect society with no stratification. You have no idea how lucky you have it here - no matter who or what you are. if you are unhappy, please leave.

Op here. Studies actually show an inverse relationship between intelligence and religiously, but don't let that stop you from calling me a bigot. The laughable part is that the religious folks are usually the bigots shoving gays back in the closet or having them undergo conversion therapy, or via the patriarchal culture of evangelicalism ensuring women are submissive to their husbands, giving it up on command, or pumping out tons of kids whether they want to or not, or when Mormons wouldn't see blacks as equals until recently...those are the kinds of things that religion does that are so offensive. It's dogmatic bullsh*t that does more harm than good. Ask all the kids molested by sexually repressed priests whether they're offended. have you ever considers those things?

[Anonymous]

Too many people who claim to be religious leaders don't bother to practice or understand basic religious principles. That's the problem.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I second that. What a hateful bigot. and uneducated or ill-educated. By the way, it's "snake handling" not that i've ever even seen it done. What EXACTLY does America do in the name of religionthat is so offensive to you OP? Our coinage says "in God we trust"? How would you like England with a monarch's head on the coinage instead. Or maybe Rome - now there was a fair, prefect society with no stratification. You have no idea how lucky you have it here - no matter who or what you are. if you are unhappy, please leave.

Op here. Studies actually show an inverse relationship between intelligence and religiously, but don't let that stop you from calling me a bigot. The laughable part is that the religious folks are usually the bigots shoving gays back in the closet or having them undergo conversion therapy, or via the patriarchal culture of evangelicalism ensuring women are submissive to their husbands, giving it up on command, or pumping out tons of kids whether they want to or not, or when Mormons wouldn't see blacks as equals until recently...those are the kinds of things that religion does that are so offensive. It's dogmatic bullsh*t that does more harm than good. Ask all the kids molested by sexually repressed priests whether they're offended. have you ever considers those things?

Why does it matter? This is all illusion. The world existed before humans. It will exist afterwards. What you and others do or don't do, won't matter in the grand scheme of things. Consider a change of scenery. Maybe move to Belgium.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I second that. What a hateful bigot. and uneducated or ill-educated. By the way, it's "snake handling" not that i've ever even seen it done. What EXACTLY does America do in the name of religionthat is so offensive to you OP? Our coinage says "in God we trust"? How would you like England with a monarch's head on the coinage instead. Or maybe Rome - now there was a fair, prefect society with no stratification. You have no idea how lucky you have it here - no matter who or what you are. if you are unhappy, please leave.

Op here. Studies actually show an inverse relationship between intelligence and religiously, but don't let that stop you from calling me a bigot. The laughable part is that the religious folks are usually the bigots shoving gays back in the closet or having them undergo conversion therapy, or via the patriarchal culture of evangelicalism ensuring women are submissive to their husbands, giving it up on command, or pumping out tons of kids whether they want to or not, or when Mormons wouldn't see blacks as equals until recently...those are the kinds of things that religion does that are so offensive. It's dogmatic bullsh*t that does more harm than good. Ask all the kids molested by sexually repressed priests whether they're offended. have you ever considers those things?

Why does it matter? This is all illusion. The world existed before humans. It will exist afterwards. What you and others do or don't do, won't matter in the grand scheme of things. Consider a change of scenery. Maybe move to Belgium.

Lol. Whut?

[Anonymous]

Agree, OP. I wish religion (all flavors) wasn't so overt here in the States. Do what you want behind closed doors, but keep it out of my face and certainly out of our government.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I second that. What a hateful bigot. and uneducated or ill-educated. By the way, it's "snake handling" not that i've ever even seen it done. What EXACTLY does America do in the name of religionthat is so offensive to you OP? Our coinage says "in God we trust"? How would you like England with a monarch's head on the coinage instead. Or maybe Rome - now there was a fair, prefect society with no stratification. You have no idea how lucky you have it here - no matter who or what you are. if you are unhappy, please leave.

Op here. Studies actually show an inverse relationship between intelligence and religiously, but don't let that stop you from calling me a bigot. The laughable part is that the religious folks are usually the bigots shoving gays back in the closet or having them undergo conversion therapy, or via the patriarchal culture of evangelicalism ensuring women are submissive to their husbands, giving it up on command, or pumping out tons of kids whether they want to or not, or when Mormons wouldn't see blacks as equals until recently...those are the kinds of things that religion does that are so offensive. It's dogmatic bullsh*t that does more harm than good. Ask all the kids molested by sexually repressed priests whether they're offended. have you ever considers those things?

Why does it matter? This is all illusion. The world existed before humans. It will exist afterwards. What you and others do or don't do, won't matter in the grand scheme of things. Consider a change of scenery. Maybe move to Belgium.

Lol. Whut?

OP would find a lot more like-minded people in Belgium. Why waste time living in the US where OP is obviously unhappy. Plenty of humanists / atheists there. OP's children could even study it in school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I second that. What a hateful bigot. and uneducated or ill-educated. By the way, it's "snake handling" not that i've ever even seen it done. What EXACTLY does America do in the name of religionthat is so offensive to you OP? Our coinage says "in God we trust"? How would you like England with a monarch's head on the coinage instead. Or maybe Rome - now there was a fair, prefect society with no stratification. You have no idea how lucky you have it here - no matter who or what you are. if you are unhappy, please leave.

Time to brush up on your US and Biblical history. It sounds like you don't know that there is a talking snake in Genesis

2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”

4 “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. 5 “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

Also, putting "In God we Trust" on our currency happened in the 1950's as a response to the Red Scare.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Canada must be nice. In the states we're subjected to an absolute onslaught of religious - mostly Christian - influence. It affects how we treat gay people, how we process science and climate change, how guilty we should feel about ourselves, and it also suppresses human nature and healthy sexuality. So that's it. I wish people could look past the fairytales about burning bushes, talking snakes, stoning gays, and the like and understand that you can still be a good, moral person without this stuff.

Dude. I regularly drive past a church with a pride flag out front. I go to a synagogue where we read the portions about the burning bush and the snake, but I know plenty of people there fighting global warming, and we are LGBT friendly.

I am tired of how religion is equated to fundamentalism, esp Christian fundamentalism.

But, yeah you SHOULD feel guilty. Unless you have called your mother in the last two days.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I second that. What a hateful bigot. and uneducated or ill-educated. By the way, it's "snake handling" not that i've ever even seen it done. What EXACTLY does America do in the name of religionthat is so offensive to you OP? Our coinage says "in God we trust"? How would you like England with a monarch's head on the coinage instead. Or maybe Rome - now there was a fair, prefect society with no stratification. You have no idea how lucky you have it here - no matter who or what you are. if you are unhappy, please leave.

Op here. Studies actually show an inverse relationship between intelligence and religiously, but don't let that stop you from calling me a bigot. The laughable part is that the religious folks are usually the bigots shoving gays back in the closet or having them undergo conversion therapy, or via the patriarchal culture of evangelicalism ensuring women are submissive to their husbands, giving it up on command, or pumping out tons of kids whether they want to or not, or when Mormons wouldn't see blacks as equals until recently...those are the kinds of things that religion does that are so offensive. It's dogmatic bullsh*t that does more harm than good. Ask all the kids molested by sexually repressed priests whether they're offended. have you ever considers those things?

STUDIES SHOW black people score lower on IQ tests and are engaged in more criminal activity than the whites. So I'm sure you also hate them too, right, because "studies"?!?!?! No. You, OP, who are obviously a liberal, probably have (rightly) a nuanced view that takes into consideration the historical factors that explain what "studies show." Why don't you try doing the same for religious people? They tend to be less educated and lower class, yes, because poverty sucks and religion helps deal with it and also religion helps sustain communities and order otherwise chaotic lives. And, guess what, there may actually be a God after all, who knows? I find the anti-religion crowd so tiresome.

Signed,

Religious African American woman

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Anonymous wrote:I second that. What a hateful bigot. and uneducated or ill-educated. By the way, it's "snake handling" not that i've ever even seen it done. What EXACTLY does America do in the name of religionthat is so offensive to you OP? Our coinage says "in God we trust"? How would you like England with a monarch's head on the coinage instead. Or maybe Rome - now there was a fair, prefect society with no stratification. You have no idea how lucky you have it here - no matter who or what you are. if you are unhappy, please leave.

Op here. Studies actually show an inverse relationship between intelligence and religiously, but don't let that stop you from calling me a bigot. The laughable part is that the religious folks are usually the bigots shoving gays back in the closet or having them undergo conversion therapy, or via the patriarchal culture of evangelicalism ensuring women are submissive to their husbands, giving it up on command, or pumping out tons of kids whether they want to or not, or when Mormons wouldn't see blacks as equals until recently...those are the kinds of things that religion does that are so offensive. It's dogmatic bullsh*t that does more harm than good. Ask all the kids molested by sexually repressed priests whether they're offended. have you ever considers those things?

Why does it matter? This is all illusion. The world existed before humans. It will exist afterwards. What you and others do or don't do, won't matter in the grand scheme of things. Consider a change of scenery. Maybe move to Belgium.

Lol. Whut?

OP would find a lot more like-minded people in Belgium. Why waste time living in the US where OP is obviously unhappy. Plenty of humanists / atheists there. OP's children could even study it in school.

Troll fail, sorry OP.

I'd like to see the back of bigoted OP too. But Belgium isn't the place for her--lots of Catholics and Muslims in veils that would surely offend snowflake OP's delicate sensibilities. Also all those ancient and glorious cathedrals that OP would have to pass, averting her eyes, on the way to get her groceries. The Ghent Alterpiece is fab, too bad OP would boycott this and other religious bits of Belgium culture.

Don't visit Israel or Saudi Arabia, OP.

In the end, OP is going to make herself outraged wherever she lives. If she can't appreciate how good she has it in the US, she's going to be outraged anywhere.