The Seeming Good Intentions

I am seeing a fair number of "let people have their religion if it gives them comfort" posts and comments of late. Now I can see why this sounds appealing, but all of these are proceeding based on a false assumption - that the religious will reciprocate by letting us have our lack of belief. That is not how prescriptive dogma works. They will NOT reciprocate. That is the horrific lesson of history, repeated over and over and over and over ...

But if the understanding that the religious will NEVER leave us alone is not enough to sway you, let's take an example of someone being left to their faith when the flood waters are rising around their homes. So far, so good - if someone wants to die from stupidity, then that's their life. Body autonomy and all that. But what about when they are keeping their family from leaving as the waters rise?

Oh wait. That seemingly trivial example is exactly what is happening on the climate change and decimation of biodiversity front on the political stage. Gosh, darn, is it really true that the religious seek political power to impose their intellectual failures on others? Why, yes, they do. THAT is how prescriptive dogma works.

Prescriptive dogma is a psychological illness that must be dealt with before it kills us all - especially when it is a death-worshiping cult savagely pushing a belief (with gleeful anticipation no less) of the demise of everyone via some apocalyptic event. Make no mistake; all three of the Abrahamic trinity of holy horrors is just that death cult.

I have lived under the threat of the bomb all of my life and so have you. All it takes is one believer with their hands on the political football, lost in their grotesque high-mindedness, to make all of everyone's deliberations meaningless...

So, about Mike Pence and letting people have their idiotic religious beliefs ...

This cannot be stressed enough. All our lives are on the line!