Shaun KingVerified account

Black and brown communities tithe millions of dollars to those types of pastors. Stop giving your tithe to leaders who work against your interests!

Religion makes people crazy and stupid. Humanity will be better off once it has outgrown religion.

We won’t though. It’s a parasite which has grown so advanced that it would be impossible to remove it without killing the host organism.

As long as we focus hard on raising sane, rational humans and continue on the track we're on, I'd give religion as an issue and a threat another 150 years tops. As the devout become more isolated they will get louder and more dangerous, but they'll die out eventually.

Not everyone who is religious is especially devout though and there in lies the problem. There are still lots of sane/rational people who are casually religious. For them it isn’t a serious belief but more something they do for community/family.

True, and they're still problems. However, that isn't remotely as big of an issue as the ones who commit and defend atrocities; the devout. Once start dying out, societal issues will start going with them.

I just think that the casually religious enable the devout and you can’t really have one without the other. For instance it’s not uncommon for casually religious parents to raise children who turn out to be much more radical from their religious exposure.

I think that you could have casuals without the radically devout. It seems like more of a parasitic relationship than a symbiotic one, the devout benefit from both the numbers and lack of outstanding voice from the casuals and all they get is a bad name.

...and Jesus has nothing to do with the brand of religion that’s been turned out by right-wing zealots for centuries. I think the Knights of the crusades, the Spanish Inquisition, conquistadors, Manifest Destiny, & KKK all evoked Jesus’ name to justify their actions. He’yump.