• Gnostic Christian Bishop
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    Religious and political disunity has condemned Earth. Should we thank our religious leaders?

    One needs not be a rocket scientist to recognize that it is our failure at the U.N. and other international bodies, who are working hard to unite the world politically and religiously; that is the core of our woes.
    By “our” I mean the rank and file who are suffering and dying for our failing systems of political and religious governance.

    We also pay heavily for our failed systems of religious and political governance. Billions upon billions of dollars wasted; especially the waste on pointless religions, in terms of law and morality.

    If the world does not unify or allow the next few years to exacerbate and hasten the demise of Earth; this generation shows how vile it is as a species.

    Individually, people are fantastic. As Jesus said, you got to love them all.

    Without leadership, we are deadly. Earth needs a, --- Captain Jesus, --- and decent candidates are not being recognized. Strange, given that Jesus’ moral tenets mostly aren’t, and secular law has already made his love as law ideology fail.

    I can remember 30 odd years ago looking at statistics and trying to project the future. I thought people would get worse over time. But the reverse has proven itself to be true. I thought the world would unify. But again I have been proven wrong due to our tolerance of religious and political con men.

    Religious leaders in particular, as well as their slaved sheeple, --- that is you if you are religious, --- claim to have moral superiority granted to them by their, so called good gods.

    All you religious are the vast majority; so why are you screwing up our world?

    The world has had enough of your religious arguments, when you bother making them; which is seldom.
    Not surprising that, given your inability to do good apologetics for your vile gods, and your propensity to use inquisition and jihad methods to make the points you cannot do mentally, intellectually or rationally.
    Your religious violence and lack of tolerance has wounded the world and you do not care enough for your fellow man and children to leave them a place cleaner and better than what you found.

    We are presently spending many trillions world-wide on our various forms of governance.
    Our religious governance is not serving us well in areas where it says it excels.

    Religions are in fact harmful to society as a whole. I can say that while recognizing that it had many uses in the past and that without it we would not be as advanced as we are.

    I think we should cut our losses and divert those gains to the environment. I think we can and should scrap religions and proceed to do the better thing and use politics as our only law. It has earned it.

    Your thoughts?

    Regards
    DL
  • I like sushi
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    I think trying to belittle religious types in such a manner does little to serve any decent humanitarian cause so maybe you should amend the OP?
  • BC
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    Right you are; the world is in a bad situation. The world has usually been in a bad situation from the POV of at least a plurality of people, if not the vast majority. Though I do think we have cooked up an unusually bad situation (global warming) which will be the leitmotif of the 21st century and most likely several centuries following. We are wrecking the environment, we know we are wrecking the environment, and we just won't stop wrecking the environment.

    Why do we behave so stupidly?

    For one, most (all?) of our leaders are liars, thieves, knaves, and scoundrels (LTK&S) and they have led the people down the primrose path of falsehood. For two, the LTK&S are greedy bitches and sons of bitches and want to keep making money by wrecking the planet. So, drill baby drill. For three, people are stupid, as well as being LTK&S. Just the other day I saw an article that said people were getting stupider. I didn't read the article because it is self evident. Dumb, dumber, and just plain fucking stupid. Four, the gods appear to be either indifferent to the mess we are in; supposedly they all said "we told you so". The gods too are all LTK&S. Or maybe they just don't exist, in which case the holy men are LTK&S.

    Meanwhile back at the ranch, 22 LTK&S are hoping to become the next POTUS, to replace the Maximum Moron who currently occupies the job, and is himself a giant LTK&S, and who is surrounded by more LTK&S.
  • BC
    13.2k
    To sum it up, there are just too many LTK&S.
  • Gnostic Christian Bishop
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    I think trying to belittle religious types in such a manner does little to serve any decent humanitarian cause so maybe you should amend the OP?I like sushi

    I disagree and if the religious cannot take the truth, that is their problem.

    If the religious were interested in humanitarian causes, they would not follow a genocidal son murdering prick of a god who they can somehow label as good, nor would they support homophobic and misogynous religions.

    Regards
    DL
  • Gnostic Christian Bishop
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    Why do we behave so stupidly?Bitter Crank

    I see us as individually quite bright and as collectively quite stupid thanks to having too many leaders and not enough flexibility in thinking of the masses to see the best of those leaders.
    For one, most (all?) of our leaders are liars, thieves, knaves, and scoundrels (LTK&S) and they have led the people down the primrose path of falsehood.Bitter Crank
    Not to disagree but remember that they do what their oligarch owners want them to do.

    Have I showed you this.
    https://www.upworthy.com/20-years-of-data-reveals-that-congress-doesnt-care-what-you-think?c=upw1&u=94acbbeb6bbd6d664157009a896e71b014efbf27

    To sum it up, there are just too many LTK&S.Bitter Crank

    No argument my friend.

    Regards
    DL
  • tim wood
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    For one, most (all?) of our leaders are liars, thieves, knaves, and scoundrels (LTK&S) and they have led the people down the primrose path of falsehood. For two, the LTK&S are greedy bitches and sons of bitches and want to keep making money by wrecking the planet. So, drill baby drill. For three, people are stupid, as well as being LTK&S.Bitter Crank

    Gosh, Bitter, tell us what you really think! Anyway, I thought and think that in my life, Truman, Eisenhower, maybe Kennedy - it's hard to call him a good man, Johnson, Ford, Carter, maybe Clinton - same issue as Kennedy, and Obama were/are good men. Especially Ike, Carter, and Obama. Not perfect, just very good on a stage where apparently that's really difficult to be.
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