Look At What Religion Does!!!

As a counsellor I’ve been repeatedly exposed to hearing about the horrors of relational abuse. I’ve worked with women who’ve had their jaws, fingers and arms broken. I’ve even worked with one woman who’d had her back broken by her husband. I’ve worked with men and women who have been stabbed by their partners with everything from a pitchforks, to broken boards and bottles. Sometimes I’d go home numb and practically too impaired to drive by the shock of what I’d listened to that day.

My conclusion? Rid the world of love.

Based on the evidence that I’ve witnessed I can say without a doubt that love is dangerous. Love is violent. Love does harm to everything it touches. There’s no telling how many lives have been destroyed by exposure to love. To end this senseless cycle, and to literally save the world, we must get serious about making sure that our children at not exposed to any teaching about love. Even the word "love" should be banished from schools and certainly anything supported by government funding should have nothing to do with promoting love. If any private schools open up in order to teach children of fundamentalist parents about love, I say, “Shut em down.” Why such drastic measures? In reality, love is one of the world’s great evils, comparable to the small-pox virus but harder to eradicate. Love is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that love seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness. How can we ever know how many children had their psychological and physical lives irreparably maimed by the compulsory inculcation of love? I mean, how much do we regard children as being the property of their parents? Should so called loving parents be free to impose their beliefs that love is good onto their children? Parents, have no god-given license to enculturate their children in whatever way they choose . . . to bring them up in an atmosphere of dogma . . . or to insist they follow the straight and narrow paths of their own belief in love.

You might be saying by this point, “That’s ridiculous. Who would be so stupid as to say things like that?” Well, atheists that’s who. No, no, they don’t use the word love. They use the word religion. Most recently Bill Maher has realised that he can make a load of cash by promoting bigotry and hatred. And before him, Dawkins and Hitchens and 80% of atheist blogs take the crusades, and suicide bombers and three or four guys who shoot at abortionists and conclude that the world should be rid of religion.

To reach my conclusion about doing away with love, I didn’t consider all the good that love has instigated down through history. In fact I had to purposely avoid that evidence and only focus on how love has been misused and abused. Just so, rabid atheists seem completely immune to the historical good that religions of all types have brought to our existence. Has there been tragedy because of religion? Certainly. But in the words of Michael Shermer, past President of the Skeptics Society “However, for every one of these grand tragedies there are ten thousand acts of personal kindness and social good that go unreported . . . Religion, like all social institutions of such historical depth and cultural impact, cannot be reduced to an unambiguous good or evil.

We can only hope that Bill Maher and his cronies will be held accountable for the mass hysteria they hope to instill in Godless people around the world. We can only hope that an awareness of their bigotry and hypocrisy seeps into the minds of those who believe that they don’t need God in order to be kind and compassionate people, even as they sit in theaters for the sole purpose of laughing at an identified, specified group of people; not because of what they’ve done wrong, but because they think differently than do atheists.

Bill Maher and Bad Religion

Bill Maher seems to have hit on a money idea. Let’s all get together and laugh at, mock, and belittle a specific group of people.

His example of atheist ethics I presume.

In his movie, Religulous, Bill who fancies himself as someone who knows it’s an elephant while everyone else is concluding a rope or a fan or a tree trunk, smugly mocks things that 90% of the world’s population holds dear.

His example of atheist humility I presume.

When talking about his movie, Mr. Maher promotes the kind of bigotry that allows him to say things like, “[If your religion is different than mine] the only answer is to kill you. Unfortunately, that sort of thing dominates the religious landscape.”
The profound denial of the facts that is required to make a statement like that staggers the mind.

Atheist tolerance at its best I suppose.

Maher isn’t just satisfied to attack people in conversations, he wants to promote bigotry and hatred in millions and millions at a time. Hitler would have loved such an opportunity.

While I know next to nothing about being a libertarian (that is so un Canadian) I’ve heard Maher on previous occasions promote his brand of sexual liberation. As I reach a little to my left and pull an old text book from the shelf “The New Harvard Guide to Psychiatry” (not a religious text by any means) I read this comment that flies in the face of Maher’s libertarian sexual philosophy.

“Many who have worked closely with adolescents over the past decade (it's an old text)have realized that “sexual freedom” has by no means led to greater pleasures, freedom, and openness; more meaningful relationship between the sexes; or exhilarating relief from stifling inhibition. Clinical experience has shown that permissiveness has more often led to empty relationships, feelings of self-contempt and worthlessness, an epidemic of venereal disease, and a rapid increase in unwanted pregnancies. Clinicians working with college students began commenting on these effects as early as 40 years ago. They noted that students caught up in so called sexual freedom found it “unsatisfying and meaningless.” A more recent study of college students found that their sexual behaviour by and large appeared to be a desperate attempt to overcome a profound sense of loneliness; they described their sexual relationships as less than satisfactory and as providing little of the emotional closeness they desired . . . They described pervasive and haunting concerns that they were using others and being used as “sexual objects.”

Of course, Christianity’s teaching on sexuality is just one of the areas that Maher ridicules. The movie as a whole is used as a platform to promote hatred toward Christianity, Judaism and Islam under the guise of humour while promoting what Maher calls logic and reason. Nevertheless, study after study after study has shown the following:
. Sin breeds misery
. There is a strong correlation between a deeply Christian life-view and a reduced incidence of:
.Smoking
.Poverty
.Interpersonal Violence
.Relational breakdown
.Alcohol abuse
.Divorce because of adultery
.Lying
.Stealing
.Corruption and
.Early onset of using sex to get “love.”
.Arteriosclerotic heart disease was 60% less in those who hold to this life-view
.Suicide among women is twice as high among those who did not have this life-view
.Cirrhosis of the liver is four times as high in those who do not have this life-view
.Both diastolic and systolic blood pressure is consistently higher in those who do not have this life-view
.Every one of 250 studies found a positive health correlation between religious affiliation and physical health, regardless of age, social status, gender or any other qualifier.
.Both men and women who held deeply held Christian beliefs were significantly more likely to report sexual satisfaction than those who do not have this life-view.
.Rates of violent crime, property crime and personal crimes of all nature were 80% higher among those who do not have this life-view.

Bill Maher would like to do away with the avenue by which these behaviours, behaviours that draw a huge cost from society, can be prevented or decreased.

Imagine if there was a new medicine that would revive, renew, restore, prosper and bring about peace and harmony to our economy, our marriages and our communities and Bill Maher and other atheists began to campaign against this medication. And what if their only reason for starting this campaign is that they had a beef with the Manufacturer? That is what is happening in this case. Bill Maher hates God and he hates anyone who is on a spiritual quest and thereby thinks differently than he and others of his ilk.

Are you dumb enough to let them do this to your country, your community, to you?
Do you want Bill Maher acting as a spokesperson for you belief system?

Could somebody help?

Could somebody help settle an argument with my wife? There’s this guy, Bill Maher who’s on Larry King once in awhile. He expounds on world and political events. Well here’s the thing. My wife says that Bill Maher talks about politics and such because he actually believes he possesses wisdom and insight; he actually believes that what he says is important. I say that Bill Maher tries to sound intelligent and relevant because it’s part of his comedy routine. It's like satire or sarcasm - very funny stuff. Who’s right? Is Larry King laughing with Bill Maher or at him? I pick the former. My wife picks the latter.