Quote Originally Posted by 40oz
....humanity has to submit and praise god because of their sins because some naked people got convinced that knowledge was better than paradise by a snake.
so; according to accepted religious dogma, the quest for an understanding of the world around us is the ultimate sin. is it any wonder those of us with more than two brain cells to rub together have declared war on these institutions of slavery? religion, from its very inception, was never anything more than a sorry attempt to explain that which we are unable to understand. our origins, the workings of the cosmos, the reasons for our existence; these are the big questions that religion has always given us little answers for. every step we have taken toward any understanding of these "unanswerables" has always been thwarted by religion and as these belief systems have evolved they have gained power over the ignorant masses and a death grip on the intellectual growth of our species.

the primitive ritual of genuflection has become the most important part of religious exercise. it is an admission that we are incapable of understanding our own natures and an act of submitting ourselves to bondage under some mythical master. it is also a secret handshake of sorts, with each creed creating some special form of prostrating themselves before their illusory creator as a way of setting themselves apart from those with different beliefs. remember; these gods are cruel, as nature is sometimes seen to be cruel, and they must be placated in order to assure their benevolence.