religion
it should be banned, and anyone caught practicing (practising?) it should be fired into the sun. the abrahamic faiths are doing their very best to destroy each other and anyone in the immediate vincinity, and religion is the number one cause of war in all of history. this would also get rid of those hypocritical wankstains who use religion as a get-out-of jail free card.

maybe then can we have a golden age of scientific enlightenment, where instead of waiting around with our collective thumbs up our assholes for jesus (or vishnu/mohammed/xenu/whoever) to help, we do it ourselves and actually make it happen. to do this, scientists and engineers should hold the place in society that priests/rabbis/whatever currently do.

does it show that i don't like religion?
(MrHammerHands last checked the time on, Thu 22 Sep 2011, 18:54, 9 replies)

i feel that the major flaw here by banning all releigeons you will make more problems
however by only allowing say Mormons or Jehovah's witnesses we can at least still take the piss at the inane attempts to promote the one true religeon
( fluffybunnykiller Is feasting on the clitoris of life, Thu 22 Sep 2011, 19:10, closed)

I must have been asleep for the history lesson
where we found out that Jesus shot Franz Ferdinand.

Don't get me started on Shiva annexing Poland?
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 22 Sep 2011, 19:24, closed)

well the question does say extra points for over-simplification and misrepresentation.....!

a good chunk of holocaust victims were jewish, so religious link there?
(MrHammerHands last checked the time on, Thu 22 Sep 2011, 19:42, closed)

The holocaust was an ethnic, not religious, cleansing effort.
Bonus, nob-gag? How about the song about Hitler having only one ball? Close enough.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Fri 23 Sep 2011, 12:33, closed)

i stand corrected.
i remember that song!
(MrHammerHands last checked the time on, Fri 23 Sep 2011, 13:26, closed)

Cause of wars =no
Excuse for wars =yes
(andythepieman Is surfing the waves of indifference on, Fri 23 Sep 2011, 10:21, closed)

^^ this ^^
I don't like religion either - in fact I'd class religious belief as a type of mental illness.

However, if by some magic wand we removed all religion from the world tomorrow, people would simply find some other way to divide themselves into "us" and "them" - what football team they supported, what they ate for breakfast, the colour of their eyes, whether they wore hats or not... Summarised perfectly by Swift in the war between the Big-Endians and Little-Endians.

Sadly, tribalism seems to be wired into us. And them.
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Fri 23 Sep 2011, 11:01, closed)

sadly i agree
maybe we could just get them to tone it down a bit, seeing as religion hasn't got the place in the world it once had?

something like the american military's (now defunct) don't ask don't tell rule?
(MrHammerHands last checked the time on, Fri 23 Sep 2011, 13:31, closed)

Surely not all religions?
I don't think anyone has started a war in the name of buddhism before.
( Draconacticus Reject shampoo. Demand real poo!, Fri 23 Sep 2011, 14:44, closed)