Important to Note

I feel it very important to stress the fact that this blog is not intended to incite hatred or violence against current people involved in religious groups. I have some friends who are religious and I do not hate them for their beliefs, and there are many kind people involved in religious groups. What I have a problem with is the way in which religion holds so much power today in society, on the belief that it is god-inspired and therefore above regular law, such as churches denying people their equal rights at marriage, not having to pay taxes, requiring separate schools, and so on. Furthermore, the churches which are more liberal (such as the United Church), while I am very happy that they are changing to be less oppressive, I must laugh at such attempts to change with the times as it is a sign that the religion is very much one that is created and established by humans alone, and not some divine almighty creator. How can the church claim to be based off of the Bible if they can pick and choose which beliefs to follow? Either way they are still connected to something that is very racist and sexist, and are not needed.

There are many Christian groups which are around the world trying to help those in need in developing countries. This is not a "point" for Christianity but for humanity. There are also many groups doing the same thing without dragging along Bibles with them. To be an atheist is not to be without morals. Christianity did not invent morals such as not killing or stealing; these existed long before, and even still are not carried out by all Christians today. This is not to say that all atheists are moral people, but I do not think it right that Christianity become a synonym for morality and good.

One more point, as I previously stated, this blog is not intended to be attack against Christianity alone but rather a critique of all established religions/cult which claim to have been inspired by god or some other mythical being. Christianity is one of the more popular religions in North America and the one which I am most familiar with, so the majority of the posts will be dealing with that religion. However, I sincerely do not mean for this to be used by other religions to attack Christianity and to claim superiority over it, because all religions err in the similar ways, as they are all *human*