Im Mitt Romney's wonderful little speech the other day;
He said: "Freedom requires religion just as religion requires freedom".
He meant: "To hell with the separation of Church and State, and Atheists suck".
By Romney's definition of freedom, Sweden, where 50% of the population, does not believe in God, cannot have a proper democracy. But of course Swedish democracy is in many respects superior to that in the United States.
Romney’s insistence that you need religion for political freedom, is a load of crap. Organized religion may have some virtues, but pushing for political liberty is seldom among them. Religion is about controlling people. No religiously based state has ever provided genuine democratic governance. You want religion in politics, go to Iran.
This piece, written by Austin Cline, should be required reading by all religious Americans.
Hopefully some of you will begin to see what a great job religion does at dividing people and what a great job religion does at stopping critical thinking dead in its tracks.
The first comment to this piece by someone called ‘Candid’, illustrates those points perfectly.
Then read Austin's civilized reply to this ignorant Christian.
The Agitated Atheist
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