On 05/28/2017 10:07 PM, Stormin' Norman wrote:

[snip]

Religions across time and the entire planet have been victimizing
their followers in the name of non-existent deities.

Even the ones with impossible attributes (like omniscience).

Every religion
from evangelical christianity to scientology is nothing but a cult. In
fact, the only difference between a cult and a religion is the size of
the membership.

The difference I heard is that a religion survives the death of it's
creator. This is still true for those that "teach" that death isn't real.

Whereas I would not want to prevent anyone from believing in their
personal fairy tales, I do advocate fully taxing all religions as one
would tax any business. There should be no special treatment of
religions.


Yes. I don't have anything against personal beliefs. I really don't want
those people trying to INFECT me with the associated anti-intellectual
nonsense.

--
Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.us/

"And all the good you've done will soon be swept away, You've begun to
matter more than the things you say" [Tim Rice/Andrew Lloyd Weber,
_Jesus Christ Superstar_]