Comments on: Sudan threatened by teddy bear http://www.freeinfidel.com/2007/11/29/sudan/ Humanism, atheism and other freedoms Thu, 20 Oct 2011 18:48:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: mark http://www.freeinfidel.com/2007/11/29/sudan/comment-page-1/#comment-5 mark Thu, 29 Nov 2007 09:52:40 +0000 http://www.freeinfidel.com/?p=17#comment-5 'loving' religions are like governments 'for the people'. Religion however is a lot harder to get rid of, precisely because it does not want its subjects to apply critical thinking. Religion was a great way for less-developed people to make sense of the world and to gain social cohesion. Today we know a lot more about the world and we see that religion is painfully inadequate to address the real issues and the real concerns of the world. If someone's religious sensitivity is shocked by calling a teddybear mohamed, how does that compare to the slaughterhouse they made out of the Sudan? Everywhere religion is rigidly applied we see signs of sickening barbarism. It needs to stop, we have far more pressing problems to address as a species. Our world is crumbling beneath us and some people are offended by a teddybear. ‘loving’ religions are like governments ‘for the people’. Religion however is a lot harder to get rid of, precisely because it does not want its subjects to apply critical thinking.

Religion was a great way for less-developed people to make sense of the world and to gain social cohesion. Today we know a lot more about the world and we see that religion is painfully inadequate to address the real issues and the real concerns of the world.

If someone’s religious sensitivity is shocked by calling a teddybear mohamed, how does that compare to the slaughterhouse they made out of the Sudan?

Everywhere religion is rigidly applied we see signs of sickening barbarism. It needs to stop, we have far more pressing problems to address as a species. Our world is crumbling beneath us and some people are offended by a teddybear.

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