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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.[/quote]

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.

[b]I am tired of how religion is equated to fundamentalism, esp Christian fundamentalism.[/b]

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

If you and churches like yours are so tired of the effects of bad religious teachings, how about doing something about it?  Openly denounce such groups, effectively showing how they do not represent your religion.  Unlike atheists who simply complain about religion, fundamentalists actually degrade what is good about religion, as the "good" religious people ignore them and complain about atheists instead.  Atheists state facts about the Bible that many good religious people accept. Meanwhile, fundamentalists are out there trying to take away civil and religious liberties from everyone who doesn't believe exactly the way they do.[/quote]

My synagogue is not in the habit of denouncing other religious bodies - whether Christian fundie, Christian liberals, Muslims, other varieties of Judaism etc. Nor do we denounce atheists.   Aside from that likely not being an effective way to persuade people, it also would be kind of dangerous for us, a tiny minority.   [/quote]

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