Abandon Religion
Abandon Religion
By Punkerslut
Why Abandon Religion?
It is so commonly believed today that religion is a source of
goodness and charity for so many people. It is also believed
that to oppose religion is also to oppose the goodness and
charity stipulated to be with it. When I ask others to abandon
religion, they will reply, “Why would you want to abandon
something that has produced so many helpful things?” But I am
not asking people to give up the affectionate and tender ways,
laced with gentleness and humanity. I am not asking that they
give up mercy or justice, things which are just as easily
attainable without religion, if not easier. I am asking people
to give up their fear of hell and daemons, their belief in a
soul and ghosts, their hope of an afterlife and a god, the
creeds founded on the credulous superstitions of their
ancestors. I am not asking the human species to relinquish the
things that are good and accompany every warm heart — I am
asking the human species to ameliorate the ideology that a god
exists that will punish nonbelievers and reward believers, that
will smile at the sufferings of the damned and fortunes of the
saved. I am asking others to abandon religion, which has been a
never-ending source of intolerance for those who have harnessed
any sort of bigotry.
There may be those who persist in the assertion that religion
is inseperable from goodness, and goodness from religion. Would
any religionist be honest to state that without god, they would
allow themselves to be heartless and brutal — to become the
epitome of savage behavior, of unspirited meanness and sincere
hatred? Would anyone who called themselves close to god, and
with good intentions, if this individual were to