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Religion - on my soapbox

I do wish people would realise that it's the looney-tunes interpreters of the many and various religious novels, and not the normal, sentient people born into said various religions that cause all religious-related misery in the world today.

And don't give me that "to believe you have to have faith and to have faith you have to believe" guff. It just doesn't wash. Hard, scientific and provable evidence is the only thing that does it for me. Not imbecilic control freaks who never do the dirty work themselves, instead, brainwashing, often the vulnerable and the outcast, into accepting unachievable and unprovable rewards for carrying out maniacal deeds. It also provides the opportunity for blame culture to flourish at the expense of religion, c.f. Mr Hitler and his current incarnate, the Supreme Nutter of Iran as well as the likes of the inappropriately named white "supremacists" and the inbred trailer trash of the KKK who for some totally inexplicable reason see themselves as being better than Idris Elba or Stevie Wonder.
 

And this is aimed across the religious board of all the approximately 4,300 religions on this planet, except for Scientology, which I remain unconvinced is a religion at all. It's nothing but a financial venture for the enrichment of an inner cabal, invented to entrap the gullible, continuing on from science fiction writer and founder L Ron Hubbard's two statements about his venture:
 
"The only way you can control a people is to lie to them.” (a 1952 lecture using religion as his example) and
"You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion." (Response to a question from the audience during a meeting of the Eastern Science Fiction Association on 7 November 1948).
 
You might as well otherwise follow "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows" or "Spike Milligan's Silly Verse for Kids", the reading and fandom for which has not, as far as I am aware, caused any deaths or the revoking of people's basic human rights as individuals.

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