Hate is strong. Some use it lightly, most don’t. Hate drives a person to rage, adrenaline attack mode, wanting to turn the object of ones hatred to dust through forceful crushing movements. Hate is not an embraced drive of humanity. It is rightfully looked down upon because of its primal and disgusting implications. Hateful emotions are innate in people just as putting that feeling into perspective is every individuals responsibility.
I hate the atom bomb. I am amazed and enthralled by the wonderment of scientific endeavour that brought the power of the atom to human reality but I hate what it can do. As a bomb it is a horrible tool of destruction, pain and manipulated rage. It kills and mutates as it astounds our minds. I hate religion for the same reasons. In theory, religion can be a unifying force of community and predominately good ethically…blah,blah. Let’s just get this out of the way now…religion does not “own” ethics or virtues, despite its claims. Let’s look at the some facets of religion. Proof so to say, of some reasons for it to be hated:
- Do a search of deaths caused by religious conflicts and you get some arbitrary number like 800 million. Let’s just play it safe and say a cool billion. That is most certainly a low ball. Over what again?…oh yeah, some assholes that say you should adhere to non-malleable ways of thinking, acting and interacting.
- The argument that the church “saved” science from the “atavism” commonly known as the Middle Ages is bullshit. When the church began taking firm hold in the early Mid’s, there was a decline in science. Knowledge explored and gained through the Greeks, Romans, Eastern Thought was devalued and subdued by the church. The Scientific Revolution later brought on by Galileo, Copernicus…all the Daddy-O’s, were counter what the church saw as the state of affairs.
- The great Islamic Empire taking place while Europe put its head in the sand, was indeed progressive and powerful. The Abbasids pushed for open interpretations towards all religions. In this way the controlling aspects of religions were subdued. Then, as the empire fell, the understanding and dispersment of Islamic texts were only to be administered by an Imam. Gone was the personal, questioning understanding of religious writings; in were the formerly used control tactics of religion to enshrine and control the masses.
- Evolution. The stupefying ignorance and back stepping of some religious sects relating to the facts of Evolution should say it all. Just as the church refused to accept the facts of heliocentrism, it even still rejects the overwhelming evidence and axioms of evolution. Idiots…and that way of thinking limits truths. Religion prefers you to be ignorant. It has power over people and, sadly, people let themselves be controlled by this entity.
- The dulling and rejection of human creativity as an individual process is one of the main tools of control by religions. Just as we grazed the idea that the church does not hold the monopoly on ethics and virtues, it so does not own and birth creativity. Despite its attempts throughout the reformation, counter and all its PR shit and pompous displays of importance, it cannot claim ownership over creativity. You are creative. It is part of your ability to communicate. The hijacking by the church of this natural drive in humanity is completely sickening. Fuck them.
These are but a few of the debates the Donald Street Collective explores; and while we all like a close race, the realities behind the power of scientific method and the ignorant religious twisting of how important proof is, separates these two concepts by eons. You may not have to hate, it is better not to I would think…but god-dammit…think.
Angry Downtownite
I hate the atom bomb. I am amazed and enthralled by the wonderment of scientific endeavour that brought the power of the atom to human reality but I hate what it can do. As a bomb it is a horrible tool of destruction, pain and manipulated rage. It kills and mutates as it astounds our minds. I hate religion for the same reasons. In theory, religion can be a unifying force of community and predominately good ethically…blah,blah. Let’s just get this out of the way now…religion does not “own” ethics or virtues, despite its claims. Let’s look at the some facets of religion. Proof so to say, of some reasons for it to be hated:
- Do a search of deaths caused by religious conflicts and you get some arbitrary number like 800 million. Let’s just play it safe and say a cool billion. That is most certainly a low ball. Over what again?…oh yeah, some assholes that say you should adhere to non-malleable ways of thinking, acting and interacting.
- The argument that the church “saved” science from the “atavism” commonly known as the Middle Ages is bullshit. When the church began taking firm hold in the early Mid’s, there was a decline in science. Knowledge explored and gained through the Greeks, Romans, Eastern Thought was devalued and subdued by the church. The Scientific Revolution later brought on by Galileo, Copernicus…all the Daddy-O’s, were counter what the church saw as the state of affairs.
- The great Islamic Empire taking place while Europe put its head in the sand, was indeed progressive and powerful. The Abbasids pushed for open interpretations towards all religions. In this way the controlling aspects of religions were subdued. Then, as the empire fell, the understanding and dispersment of Islamic texts were only to be administered by an Imam. Gone was the personal, questioning understanding of religious writings; in were the formerly used control tactics of religion to enshrine and control the masses.
- Evolution. The stupefying ignorance and back stepping of some religious sects relating to the facts of Evolution should say it all. Just as the church refused to accept the facts of heliocentrism, it even still rejects the overwhelming evidence and axioms of evolution. Idiots…and that way of thinking limits truths. Religion prefers you to be ignorant. It has power over people and, sadly, people let themselves be controlled by this entity.
- The dulling and rejection of human creativity as an individual process is one of the main tools of control by religions. Just as we grazed the idea that the church does not hold the monopoly on ethics and virtues, it so does not own and birth creativity. Despite its attempts throughout the reformation, counter and all its PR shit and pompous displays of importance, it cannot claim ownership over creativity. You are creative. It is part of your ability to communicate. The hijacking by the church of this natural drive in humanity is completely sickening. Fuck them.
These are but a few of the debates the Donald Street Collective explores; and while we all like a close race, the realities behind the power of scientific method and the ignorant religious twisting of how important proof is, separates these two concepts by eons. You may not have to hate, it is better not to I would think…but god-dammit…think.
Angry Downtownite