Quote Originally Posted by F L E S H
Why even waste your time debating silly superstitions? Life will always be meaningless unless you live the present moment to its fullest extent. There is no God, no Jesus, no nothing, only humanity. Once we all accept this we will be able to move beyond our petty squables and realize that we have the potential to be great, to usher in a new age of peace and prosperity for the entire world.

I am firm in my belief that religion (especially the big three monotheistic ones) has hindered and prevented us from achieving our potential.
yep, I've wondered at times how far we'd be both societally and technologically if we didn't spend over a thousand years executing people for proposing theories that aren't "duuuuuhhhhhhhhhh god did it". this is why I don't like the intelligent design theory, it's more of the same old "well you can't explain it because blank blank and blank, so that proves god did it!". throughout history we attributed everything we can't scientificly explain to the easy "god" explanation. and when we managed to scientificly explain that, we just move on to the next thing we haven't yet explained and call that proof of gods work.