Religion Promotes War

While driving from the Badger Mountain Centennial trail, I stopped in the street for a family leading a troop of cub scouts running across where there was no crosswalk. The leader waved and smiled his appreciation as they went into a church for the cub scout meeting. The groups meet in a church and redefine morals with supernatural law in that holy building. And by their very oath, the boys are trained to practice separatism and bigotry toward fellow human beings.
There is fantasy taught there. Inside the buildings folks are told fantastic tales of the “true” god who has led many to kill and burn and harass people of their choosing.
The shame in spreading fantasy is: that people will believe what they are told. Surely the man of god will tell the truth. Is abortion an abomination? Never mind that the god they believe in furnishes women abortions on a natural basis of which they are unaware. Because the listeners shy away from science they do not realize that nature terminates pregnancies frequently, often on a monthly basis. Homosexual life style is also taught as an abomination. Never mind that Jesus appears to have lived the life of one, if he ever lived at all. Sex before marriage is frowned upon especially for someone else. Those who practice sex outside of marriage are treated badly. But christians can believe whatever they want. Just find a bible verse that validates their attitude.
It is time to be vigilant against warmongering and hatred. Preachers expound those ideals to willing people that perpetuate the fantasy of something beyond nature causing nature. If so who caused the one who caused it? No one knows how it all began but it is a grim fairie tale that misleads the human race.
Read the ten commandments that god himself inscribed in stone. The bible says so. The first four are demands to worship him and him only. Highly important to be repeated and repeated. And read the one about coveting the neighbor's property, wives, donkeys and other stuff the neighbor acquires. Women love to be classified with asses, and then owned by others no smarter than themselves.
The cub scout troop surely believe that god was on their side because I did not run them down on the street. God is good? Many people do not pretend they will be reunited with their loved ones after they die. They have the genetic morals to choose to do good without a bearded man looking over their shoulder. No rewards necessary.
Naomi Sherer