i'd have to say yes. i wont begrudge people their right to belive in a deity, but i think religion should be abolished like slavery was.

right?  even as a super villain, that hurts my brain.

Yeah, my comment was kinda vague, but that is because I wanted it not to be taken as an attack against Christians (though the picture would seem to indicate that) specifically I wanted this post to show the absurdity of any dogmatic organization, Christian or otherwise.

I accept that people believe in God, or whatever else they believe in, and I can even understand their reasons for doing so, but I believe that the institutions that dictate faith and try to structure thought, should not be allowed to exist. This is not out of some Marxist "opiate of the masses" snarkiness either, I really feel that spiritual/theistic belief should and mostly have progressed beyond the rigid structures of any church.

I should also point out that i am not exactly an atheist, and while I don't believe in Christ or God in any traditional sense of the words, it is not my wish to prevent other people from believing in it. in fact, what i would like to see are non denominational churches that are truly open to any one of all faiths and beliefs. a place that holds no political affiliations that people can go to discuss and debate their views on god etc.

there are progressive churches our there I know, and I am even ordained as a minister through the Universal Life Church, but, for the most part, religions are segregationist, intolerant and ignorant and it is my finding that they generally promote these same qualities in their members.

yeah i saw that and it made me mad, because it is essentially not a religious statement at all but a thinly veiled racist one.

yeah i agree, that is why the long rant