Once when I was reading a Quora forum, someone had asked the question whether it was all right to be angry with God. This one woman got hysterical and asked, "How can anyone get angry with God? He's our savior." Then again, I wouldn't really know, because I'm an agnostic; and I don't buy into all the superstition behind religion.
Nevertheless, if God really does exist, anyone who is incapable of getting angry with him doesn't have a backbone. When you look at how many terrible things there are going on throughout the world, how can you not feel that he is somehow to blame for it? Wasn't he supposed to be the one who created it all?
Well, to be quite honest, my article here is not about misotheism. Nope! Herein I won't be encouraging anyone to burn a Bible or spray-paint obscenities on the exterior of a church. Nothing like that.
My article here is about all the stupidity that has been tied to the institution of religious worship and the problems that Christianity as well as other belief systems have caused the world. I don't normally publish articles on my PEAKD channel about the topic of religion, but I wanted to do so this time to try something different with my writing.
I know that I'm going to get a load of backlash for this article, but I don't care. I realize that one never knows whom they will offend upon bringing up the subject of religion, but perhaps not enough of these Bible thumpers have been offended; and, for that reason, they try to walk all over anyone who doesn't share their beliefs.
I'm not here to wage a secular war against all religious worship. I'm merely here to enlighten people about how much damage different religions have caused societies throughout the world by imposing their belief systems on others who don't share their ideologies.
1. A Variety Of Non-Believers On YouTube
YouTube is full of atheists and agnostics who devote their channels to denouncing religion and all the nonsense that religious leaders peddle to the public, with fear-mongering tactics. One interesting interview that comes to mind is one that Seth Andrews held with Kristi Burke, who used to be a devout Christian and later switched to a life of atheism. Below is the interview.
Seth Andrews Interviews Kristi Burke About Her Bumpy Journey From Christianity To Atheism
Ironically, Ms. Burke reminds me of the actress Sally Field during her younger days in that she doesn't only look like her, but she also talks like her. If television producers were to revive the sitcom The Flying Nun, Ms. Burke would be perfect in that role short of the fact that she doesn't subscribe to any religion anymore.
YouTuber JaclynGlenn has taken a stand against religious TikTokers because of their fear-mongering tactics to get people to believe in all of their garbage. YouTuber JaclynGlenn took a similar pathway as Ms. Burke did. Watch YouTuber JaclynGlenn's video below.
YouTuber JaclynGlenn Socks It To All The Religious Fanatics On TikTok
I have to commend YouTuber JaclynGlenn that she is brave about her viewpoints regarding religion, because I can only begin to think of all the hate comments she gets from these religious lunatics, telling her that hellfire is awaiting her posthumously. She probably laughs them all off; and if she can do that, I give her kudos for it. However, most people would lose their mind, having to read all their snide comments about eternal damnation and endless torture.
Another atheist YouTuber who has made a name for himself is Thomas James Kirk III, who goes by the user name of TheAmazingAtheist and Into The Fray. Below is a video of his.
Thomas James Kirk III Rejects All The Religious Horror Stories About Hell
Believe it or not, Mr. Kirk used to be a Christian earlier on in his life, although he does admit in the video above that he hated Sunday school. As you can see, Mr. Kirk doesn't buy into these religious extremists' horror stories about hellfire. Nonetheless, Mr. Kirk still received posts from evangelicals in his comments section about him needing to save his own soul.
Kyle Kulinski has a YouTube channel named Secular Talk. I've heard him identify himself as an agnostic. Before he got heavily into political topics in his videos, he used to attack televangelists like the late Pat Robertson, Kenneth Copeland, and the late Paul Crouch, just to name a few of them, in his videos. Below is a video of his.
Kyle Kulinski Parades The Late Pat Robertson's Verbal Shenanigans On Camera
I know that people say that you shouldn't speak ill of the dead, but these flimflam artists calling themselves men of God have spoken about dead people they didn't even know burning in Hell for all eternity. Therefore, I give Mr. Kulinski a free pass to say whatever he pleases about any of them, even the ones that are no longer alive.
There's another YouTuber who goes by the user name of Styxhexenhammer666. He's an atheist who believes that you can become a better atheist by reading the Bible. Below is a video of his.
YouTuber Styxhexenhammer666 Ironically Resorts To The Bible To Prove His Atheist Beliefs
The next atheist YouTuber doesn't even show his face in his videos, but that's perfectly fine with me. He goes by the user name of MarcMundSpilli. He refuses to buy into any religious beliefs that get thrown at him. His video is below.
YouTuber MarcMundSpilli Describes The Problem He Has With Religion And Most Such Institutions
There is an atheist named Hemant Mehta on YouTube who goes by the user name of "Friendly Atheist." His ultimate goal is for the separation of church and state. This gentleman has been on the Internet for a long time, and he produces interesting videos on YouTube like the one below.
Hemant Mehta Explains A Supreme Court Ruling Regarding Religion
I commend the Freedom From Religion Foundation for filing an amicus brief for this particular matter. In his video above, Mr. Mehta makes important points about the ills of religious indoctrination in the American public school system.
You may or may not have watched the comedy duo Penn & Teller appear on the Showtime cable network. Penn Jillette has made it known to the world that he is an atheist, and he now has a presence on YouTube. Below is a video of his.
Penn Jillette Describes How Reading The Bible Or The Likes Will Turn You Into An Atheist Like Him
Mr. Jillette has made appearances on the HBO series Real Time With Bill Maher and other well-known news programs. In his interview above, Mr. Jillette names a few famous atheists in the form of the late Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins. Until I watched his video above, I was unaware that singers Randy Newman and the late Frank Zappa were atheists.
I can't help but to laugh whenever I watch this one video on YouTube in which a group of atheist YouTubers all die and go to Heaven, and they're not happy about it. Below is that same video.
The Holy Divinity Decides To Allow A Group Of Atheist YouTubers Into Heaven
The YouTuber who posted this same video above goes by the user name of DarkMatter2525. An interesting article has one of his videos embedded in it.
There are many more atheist and agnostic YouTubers. The fact alone that I cannot name them all in this one article without taking forever to do so could explain why church attendance has plummeted to an all-time low of 45 percent here in the United States.
We don't even have to look into our history at wackos like Jim Jones and David Koresch to know the kind of harm that religious fanaticism can cause. Religious extremism has dipped its poisoned tentacles into just about every aspect of American life.
2. My Relationship With Religious People
So many years ago when I was sitting in the break room of my office building and eating my meal, there was this one man sitting not too far from me. We were both watching television, and the topic of the movie titled Contact starring Jodie Foster came up on the television screen.
I told the man sitting not too far from me that I really liked that film. He responded to me that the problem that he had with that movie was that it promoted hostility against Christians and that he could not understand why people liked to hate on religious individuals. Then this man came over to my table and sat down.
At first, he seemed like a nice person. However, he immediately began shooting his mouth off about how his faith-based beliefs condemned embryonic stem cell research and how he was certain that psychics got their powers from Satan. In other words, he literally answered his own question as for why so many people detested religious extremists.
I did mention to him that I believed that perhaps some religious people claimed that all suicides went to Hell inasmuch as there were religious people that believed that we all were already in Hell but that we didn't feel the burning fire of Hell inasmuch as our physical bodies protected our souls from it. This man disagreed with me as I should have expected.
Nevertheless, I don't personally hate religious people. I simply cannot agree with them on a number of issues, and I don't appreciate it whenever they attempt to take full control over domestic policy here in the United States.
At the same time, there are issues that I wholeheartedly agree on with religious people. Not because I am a Christian. I'm really an agnostic. It's because I can see that these same religious people have actually done their research instead of basing their findings on pure conjecture.
I'm not someone who isolates myself from religious people. In fact, some religious people are my closest friends. I merely make it clear to them that I am not going to see eye to eye with them on every single, solitary issue and topic, because I am not a regular churchgoer as they are.
And, yes, I realize that religious people do pay taxes here in the United States and that they should have equally as much say about our nation's laws and policies as everyone else should have. My concern about religion is that there should be separation of church and state, because both institutions have the capacity to harm each other if they are mixed together.
The Quakers are a religious group that want separation of church and state, because they fear that mixing the two could allow government officials to infringe upon the individual rights of religious Americans. Atheists and agnostics want separation of church and state inasmuch as they don't want our nation taking itself back to medieval times when governments and kingdoms had faith-based set-ups that were oppressive.
Jay Sekulow is a religious attorney, and I've seen him agree on television programs with people who support the separation of church and state. He's also a conservative Republican. Therefore, as you can see, there is support for separation of church and state on both sides of the political aisle.
Fact has it that there are a number of religious people that are very educated and intelligent. The late William Peter Blatty is a good example of one. He was the author of The Exorcist, and he produced the film for it in 1973. He was a devout Catholic.
What disturbs me is that there are also a number of religious extremists who care nothing about science or any type of factual research. They base every single, solitary belief of theirs on ideologies rather than on actual findings. These are the people that we all need to be worried about, because they are inherently dangerous to society.
3. Hell The Only Destination For Suicides? The Hell With Hell!
Once when I was surfing around on YouTube, I came across this one video that had a brief description of a story titled Feed The Pig by Elias Whitherow. It was about a man who had committed suicide and went to some kind of purgatory instead of Heaven or Hell. Watch the video below.
A Suicide Has To Crawl Into The Mouth Of A Monstruous Pig To Escape A Sort Of Purgatory
The picture of the pig in the video above makes me think of this one demon named Jody that appeared to a little girl in the form of a deformed pig in the movie The Amityville Horror. I've come across some zany and even bizarrely surreal portrayals of what happens to suicides after they pass on, but Elias Witherow must have been stoned on heroin or LSD when he authored the story described in the video above.
An author named Jason B Truth has published 4 articles challenging the religious extremist belief that all suicides can only have one destination in the afterlife, and that is Hell. His articles are "The Late Robin Williams Is Not Burning In Hell," "Is Hell Real or Is It a Lie?," "Post-Suicidal Eternal Damnation Is A Tough Sell Nowadays," and "Religious Influencers' Fear-Mongering Tactics About Hell Are Lies."
What comes to mind is this one true story out of Canada in which this one ailing, partially disabled man was losing most of his government benefits and he was going to be evicted from his residence in a couple of months. Therefore, he applied for a state-assisted suicide to take place shortly before his eviction.
In telling his reasons for having the government help him take his own life, this Canadian man's main point to the journalist who interviewed him was that homelessness was not an option for him. He was destined to be out on the streets in the bitter cold of winter if he didn't go through with the suicide.
Religious zealots will rant and rave about how they believe that this Canadian man will spend eternity burning and suffering in the proverbial lake of fire. My response to them is that if God is all so merciful and loving, how does he even justify having this poor Canadian man choose between freezing to death out on the streets in excruciating pain from his disabilities or spend eternity burning and suffering torment at the hands of demons? It doesn't seem like a very reasonable god to me.
Whenever some deranged Bible thumper like Robert Lyte runs his mouth about how all suicides cannot have any destination in the afterlife other than Hell, I find their narratives to be very offensive and callous. Most suicides are individuals who have either undergone so much pain and suffering that they can no longer deal with life anymore and they decide to end it all or they are suffering from mental illness.
No loving, caring, and ever so merciful god would send these same people to Hell to burn, suffer, and be tortured for all eternity. How would it make any sense? What part of that do these religious extremists not understand?!
When I was a teenager, a Mormon friend of mine explained to me that the reason that all suicides went to Hell, according to religious zealots, that is, was because they forever destroyed their chances of repenting for their last sin (suicide), which the Bible defines as murder. I told my Mormon friend that his explanation for it all sounds like dogma to me based on one cold, mathematical equation rather than on critical thinking.
Wouldn't it make more sense for God to send a suicide back to Earth to be reincarnated instead? That way that suicide could get his life right the next time around. Oh, wait a minute! I forgot! I'm an agnostic, and I question the existence of God. Therefore, why should I even care what religious extremists believe regarding suicide?
Well, I should care, because religious extremists are constantly terrorizing small children with their fairy tales about suicides spending eternity burning as well as getting tortured and tormented in the lake of fire. This has to have some kind of psychological impact on children.
In other words, if a little kid loses his uncle or older brother to suicide, any religious extremist who brainwashes them into believing that their loved one is burning in Hell is way out of line, to say the least. That is, there is a world of a difference between someone taking their own life as a result of prolonged suffering and a serial killer murdering innocent people, and these Bible thumpers need to realize it.
One time a few years ago when I was participating in a discussion thread on Yahoo, I posted that I felt that any religion that teaches that all suicides go to Hell should be legally stripped of its 501(c)(3) tax-exemption status. Two Bible thumpers became very offended from my statement.
One of them merely complained in his reply to me. The other one went berserk and posted that I would be burning for all eternity in the lake of fire. Of course, I brushed his reply off as the ravings of a deranged psycho-Christian.
People have told me that it is futile to argue with these religious extremists about whether or not all suicides go to Hell, because they will never admit that they are wrong even when proof is staring them directly in the face that they are wrong. Hmm. I wonder how they dealt with it once the late Pastor Carlton Pearson came out that he didn't believe in Hell at all.
A good way to put a religious extremist in the hot seat regarding the topic of whether all suicides go to Hell is to ask them this one pressing question. Do all 6-year-old suicides go to Hell?
Now, I can appreciate the argument that seldom do 6-year-old kids ever take their own lives. However, if a little kid that young has suffered child abuse and sexual molestation at the hands of a vile parent or deviant adult, it is possible that a child that young will take his or her own life.
So, go ahead and ask a religious extremist if they believe that all 6-year-old suicides go to Hell. Truth has it that they probably will evade the question as much as possible, because they know that they have no way of answering it without compromising their own credibility as Christians.
A religious extremist is not going to say that all 6-year-old suicides do go to Hell, because if he or she does so, they're going to sound like a deranged misopedist who advocates the mindless torture and brutalization of small children in the name of religion. If that religious extremist replies to you that not all 6-year-old suicides go to Hell, then they'll be kicking their own religious faith in the butt.
Instead, a religious extremist will get angry and exclaim, "That's not a fair question!" They'll exclaim it, because perhaps deep down inside they're probably worried that they might be wrong about their religious convictions regarding whether all suicides go to Hell.
Try putting a religious extremist on the spot in that manner at least one time. You'll be surprised about how such a person behaves in the way that I described above.
The very idea on its own that someone could spend eternity in a lake of fire and suffer torture forever at the hands of demons is sick and twisted to me. I mean, these religious fanatics are not saying that all suicides only spend a couple of days in this ongoing prison of atrocities or even as much as only a thousand years, but they're claiming that such a person will be there forever and ever.
Where is the justice in all of that? If God were to throw people into Hell for taking their own life because they were suffering horrors here on Earth, how much better is God than Satan in the event that either one of them truly exist? It's nefarious at best.
Religious extremists will argue that God doesn't send you to Hell but that your actions do. Even at that, God is supposed to have the power to stop it from happening, hence so much for that Bible-thumping argument of theirs.
Now, a number of us would have no problem if some monster like the late Charles Manson or the late Ted Bundy were to spend an eternity in Hell, if such a place existed. Then again, some of you out there might not even wish something so horrendous on your worst enemy.
Nevertheless, a young kid who takes his or her own life spending forever and ever in a lake of fire, being tortured and tormented constantly? Somehow that doesn't sit right with me, and I can be rest assured that there are more people who agree with me than there are people who disagree with me on this topic.
Below is a video about eternal damnation and how such a concept makes no sense at all in a civilized society. You'll find much of what it says to be truthful.
An All So Loving Being Would Not Create Hell, And Most Suicides Wouldn't Belong There
A number of Christians hold the same belief that the late Pastor Carlton Pearson did that Hell is nothing more than a myth. Those are the kind of Christians I like. Below is a video that talks about it.
Without A Hell, There Can Be No Devil
There is even a debate over whether Jesus Christ ever existed. Below is a video about it.
Jesus Christ May Have Been A Mythological Character
At the end of the day, suicide is a very tragic reality of humanity. However, any belief that all suicides go to Hell in the afterlife is nothing more than a load of fear-mongering tactics that have no evidence to back them up.
Once you die, your nervous system dies with you. Therefore, it would not be possible for someone to suffer pain and endless misery in Hell, if it did exist. There are some Christians who say that no humans are in Hell and that God only made Hell for Satan and his demons to live there.
The Bible is devoid of any verses that specify that someone who commits suicide will definitely go to Hell no matter what the circumstances are and no matter how unfair such a fate would be. It bewilders me why religious extremists would ignore the very scriptures that they peddle to their followers.
No Christians have ever held a seance in which they have summoned the spirit of a suicide victim and that spirit has appeared before them engulfed in flames or with demonic horns. These religious extremists can never seem to produce the proof they need to substantiate that all suicides go to Hell no matter how much they insist that they are right about it.
Furthermore, I don't understand why anyone is even having this discussion about whether all suicides go to Hell here in 2025. It's as though society has not matured at all since the days of the Salem witch trials.
If Hell really did exist, how would the demons be able to handle all the condemned souls? So many people have died since the beginning of humanity that eventually the condemned souls would outnumber the demons and uprise against them. Once they defeated the demons, they'd likely find their way up to Heaven to exact revenge on God for sending them to Hell in the first place. It all makes absolutely no sense at all.
I don't doubt that consciousness may outlive one's physical body. However, if that is true, I can only trust scientific evidence to that effect. I simply cannot buy into the old wives' tale about Heaven and Hell. There are too many illogical characteristics about those beliefs.
4. All Psychic Powers From The Devil? Not True!
So many years ago when I was working in a Fab, processing semiconductors, this co-worker of mine cracked a joke about how he found a missing document inasmuch as he had asked Satan if he could give him psychic powers to track down missing items. I, of course, made it known to him that I didn't believe in the existence of any devil.
A female co-worker made an irritated facial expression at me, because she was a regular churchgoer and obviously didn't like my response to that male co-worker of ours. I really found nothing funny about my male co-worker's joke, because there is no definitive evidence that psychics do get their gifted abilities from some demonic entity, if there is such a thing.
I find this one belief of religious extremists to be very offensive and intellectually bankrupt, because it would seem that God, if he really did exist, would want humans to be able to utilize a gifted ability like mental telepathy to better the quality of their life equally as he would want kids to be able to have a knack for playing the piano to excel in the entertainment world.
I could take this argument in a thousand different directions, but I'm going to keep it all plain and simple. Even if there may be verses in the Bible that describe psychics being connected with Satan, I'm still not convinced that a psychic would get their gifted abilities of psychic powers from an evil entity like Satan. Then again, I'm not a fan of the Bible.
First of all, I have never witnessed a demon pop out of the ground when a psychic has tracked down a missing item. Then again, I have never consulted with a psychic for any reasons, but I don't anticipate any strange demonic occurrence would take place in that event.
My take on psychics is that I don't believe in their existence, but I don't disbelieve in their existence either. I've never encountered one that I could confirm was really gifted with that special ability.
In any event, if I had a psychic child, I would do everything to protect that child of mine from religious fanatics who would rant and rave about my child getting his or her gifted abilities from the devil. Let's face it. Religious fanatics and extremists who dwell on these things are not well in the head in the first place. They obsess over Hell and demons.
Second of all, if I were to agree with Christians that psychics get their gifted abilities from Satan for the sake of argument and ONLY for the sake of argument, I could argue that psychic powers ultimately come from God inasmuch as God created Satan. I could also argue that perhaps Satan is allowing humans to use the psychic powers that he gave them for the purpose of good rather than evil, because Satan wants a reconciliation with God and a second chance to be in Heaven.
Third of all, if people's psychic powers really come from Satan and God doesn't want them utilizing them, not even for constructive purposes, then why doesn't God simply zap those same powers back from Satan to himself? Wouldn't that make much more sense than for God to tell humans to avoid using psychic powers at all?
If God really does exist, it would appear that he would have that same alternative of zapping psychic powers back from Satan to himself. If God can't even do that, then he really isn't the all-so-powerful being he's depicted as in the Bible.
The fact of the matter is that when someone is in a desperate situation and they need to locate a missing item that is a matter of life or death, they are not going to hesitate to use their psychic powers if they have them. If it's considered an abomination to God, isn't God supposed to allow you to kick him in the head and spit in his face today and then he'll love you and forgive you tomorrow for those sins?
Isn't God supposed to be so loving and forgiving? If you momentarily turn against him today, he should forgive you tomorrow and love you anyhow.
I completely get it that God doesn't love you for your sins. However, when someone uses psychic abilities, nobody really gets hurt. Therefore, God has no real foundation to stand on in his mission to convince humans not to resort to psychic abilities in times of emergency.
Why does God have to make everything so complicated for humans? Why hasn't the Bible ever allowed any room for Occam's razor instead of holding humanity hostage to impossible expectations?
It's not that people are tempted to utilize psychic powers to get themselves out of a tight spot. It's that if someone uses psychic powers to locate a missing lottery ticket, they're ultimately not going to talk themselves into believing that they have done anything wrong by doing so.
Furthermore, take an example in which there is something very important that you're looking for and you know that you didn't lose it or misplace it. You look. You look. You look, and you keep on looking and find nothing until you get to the point that you're going to use psychic powers to track it down if you have them regardless of what the Scriptures have to say about it. I don't care if you're the closest relative of Jesus Christ. You're going to do it anyway, because those powers are there for your use.
There is nothing more frustrating and infuriating than not having access to something you direly need and that you know that you did not misplace. No fairy-tale god could ever convince me that I was doing something wrong by using psychic powers to find where it is, period.
My mother once told me that the Scriptures taught that resorting to psychic abilities was an abomination of God. Yeah, right. If God is such a self-serving piece of dog feces that wants to deprive me of something that I need to find, then he deserves to get abominated as much as possible.
Look at it this way. If I had psychic powers and I needed to track down a missing check for one-million dollars, I wouldn't hestitate to use thoses powers to do so merely for the sake of some god that I do not love and have never even seen.
No matter how you bend this argument about whether psychic powers originate from Satan, it always comes back to the fact that God was the one who screwed up in giving those same powers to Satan. If he really did so, that is. Therefore, God should be the one to have to live with the consequences of it whenever someone decides to use psychic powers for whatever reason.
Whenever you hear about psychics in the news, usually you hear about them using their telepathic powers to find missing children. Whenever you hear about ministers and televangelists in the news, usually you hear about them sexually molesting children. Hmmmm. I wonder why these so-called men of God dislike psychics so much. It couldn't all be about the Scriptures.
If I had psychic powers and some Bible-thumping butt-headed preacherman were to go running his mouth off at me about how he feels that I'm flirting with evil, you better believe I'd be using my powers to find out every dirty and perverted secret he has so that I could expose him to the whole world for the piece of human garbage that he is. I'd do it all in a heartbeat without even giving it a second thought.
I mean, there are a number of televangelists and church ministers who get into trouble for being with prostitutes or sexually molesting children or both, so I wouldn't have to set forth very much effort to dig up dirt on them through extrasensory perception. They fear psychics, because they know that they can destroy them.
You can twist this discussion in any direction you want, but, at the end of the day, using psychic powers to locate a missing item is not the same as committing murder or forcible rape. It's not a crime, and God has no rights under our laws. Therefore, nobody is going to beg God for forgiveness in that event, because perhaps they don't think that there's anything for him to forgive or that he is even relevant in their lives.
As I stressed before, God is the one who made the mistake of giving Satan psychic powers in the first place. That is, if either one of them truly exists.
Once again if God really exists and is all so powerful, he can zap those psychic powers back from Satan to himself. If he doesn't, it's as though he likes to do everything the hard way or perhaps he simply wants to make humans angry at him as a so-called test of love, whatever that may really mean. I don't think that love can really be tested in certain situations, and this is one of them.
If psychic powers really do exist, I can assure you that they don't come from the devil, because there is no devil. He's as make-believe as demons and Hell are.
There has to be some kind of scientific explanation for the existence of psychics, assuming that they do exist. I'm well aware that there are flimflam artists everywhere who proclaim themselves to be psychics. However, I wouldn't doubt that even they don't believe that psychic powers come from the devil or that the devil even exists. You would think that here in 2025 the world would have matured beyond such superstitions.
5. Embryonic Stem Cell Research Equal To Infanticide? No Proof!
On occasion, you may bang your hand or another body part into something. Worse yet, you may end up in a car accident or some corrosive liquid may fall on your face from a shelf in a public restroom at a gas station as you're trying to reach for a roll of toilet paper.
When those horrible tragedies happen to you, you're going to be in such pain that the last thing on your mind will be the Eucharist. That is, if you're religious at all.
If you're an agnostic like me, you are probably outraged that religious extremists would stand in the way of medical science and medical technology restoring your physical state back to what it was before you were severely injured to the point that you might have even been disfigured or maimed in some way. Well, unfortunately, they do.
Now, if some religious zealot accidentally sets their own arm on fire and they stand there and yell how much they love God while their arm burns away to nothing, then that's their business. However, when they insist that non-believers in God do the same thing, then I start to have a really big problem with Christianity and religion itself.
There is a woman named Judie Brown who started a Catholic organization named the American Life League back in 1979 to wage war against abortion. Early on in her role as the head of this same organization, she did a number of good things for people. For example, if an employer threatened to fire a pregnant woman unless she were to get an abortion, Ms. Brown and her organization fought for that woman's rights.
I know the topic of Judie Brown really deserves an article of its own, but I'm including this section about her in my article anyhow. Now, I do not like abortion myself. However, I realize that there are people who strongly disagree with me on this topic, and I'm not here to go to war with them or with anyone. I am here to show everyone how Ms. Brown has become a deranged psycho-Christian in recent years.
You see? Ms. Brown actually believes that embryonic stem cell research is a form of child murder despite that she has never provided one shred of scientific evidence to back up those same claims of hers to this very day. She just shoots her mouth off and expects everyone to believe her every word merely because she is a woman of God, so to speak. Below is a video that shows how mentally unhinged she is in this regard. You will be shocked at her detachment from reality.
Judie Brown Whines About Embryonic Stem Cells Being Little People Who Get Scrapped
The above video shows all of the medical breakthroughs that embryonic stem cell research could provide. However, Ms. Brown is dead set on believing that embryonic stem cells are little people when fact has it that they don't even have nervous systems throughout the time that scientists study them and experiment with them.
Ms. Brown doesn't want anyone to accuse her of being mentally unhinged in light of her religious convictions. However, from the very beginning, she has ignored all the scientific evidence that her claims of embryonic stem cells being living and breathing human beings could not be any further from the truth.
Ms. Brown has become a domestic terrorist disguised as a warrior for human rights. Because of her political activism against embryonic stem cell research, Americans are needlessly suffering and even dying inasmuch as laws against embryonic stem cell research that Ms. Brown gets enacted are preventing them from obtaining the medical treatment that they so direly need. She abuses and misuses stare decisis in that regard.
Ms. Brown apparently likes pain and suffering as long as it's not her own. Embryonic stem cells can go as far as causing one to recover their eyesight and restore their disfigured face back to normal. If Ms. Brown had to walk in the shoes of an acid-attack victim, I don't know how she could rightfully continue to denounce embryonic stem cell research.
Ms. Brown belongs in an institution for the criminally insane. She is not playing with a full deck. If anyone attempts to talk reason with her, she cops the attitude that it is either her way or the highway. She shows this dogmatism in her facial expressions whenever anyone interviews her. She is a dangerous person, and this is the kind of religious activism that I detest with a vengeance.
Ms. Brown has even prided herself to be a religious extremist. Who in their right mind would admit to something like that? In my strong opinion, religious extremism is one colossal whorehouse that needs to be burned down to the ground and destroyed, because it only stirs up trouble for everyone.
Some of you may not have enough information about embryonic stem cell research to form an opinion about it, and that's absolutely fine. In any event, allow me to educate you on what it all involves and entails. The video below serves that exact purpose.
An Unbiased View Regarding Embryonic Stem Cells And Their Controversy
Religious extremists are pulling our society in a downward trajectory, and it is harming us as a whole. Now, I don't disagree with the American Life League on every single, solitary issue. There are some points that they have made about social and political issues in which you can tell that they did their homework on them.
Nevertheless, embryonic stem cell research is a topic that is dear to my heart, and it angers me that Ms. Brown and the American Life League refuse to keep their noses out of that scientific phenomenon. I've looked into Ms. Brown's educational background, and I find her academic credentials to be quite impressive.
The problem I'm having with Ms. Brown is that it can be no mystery that she relocated from liberal California to the conservative Commonwealth of Virginia with the obvious goal of being somewhere where not as many people will question her religious dogma. She's clearly not bringing anything constructive to the table when she stands in the way of valuable advancements in medical science and medical technology as a result of her war against embryonic stem cell research.
My feelings are that if Ms. Brown is so opposed to embryonic stem cell research being in the United States, she should go to Europe and live in the Vatican. Nobody here in the United States would miss her in that event.
Ms. Brown may appear to you as a harmless, old lady, but she is a ticking time bomb waiting to explode and drag everyone down with her. I'm surprised that there haven't been more people that have called her out on her attacks against embryonic stem cell research than there have been.
Ms. Brown? If you are reading my article, let me ask you this question. How does it feel to be one of the most reviled people in the United States? You probably have to check your mail all the time for anthrax and ricin before you open it.
Even worse, Ms. Brown, you probably have to x-ray all the packages you receive to make sure that there isn't a mail bomb inside of any of them. Is that fun? Is it really worth your dogmatic beliefs? I wouldn't think so, but, then again, you're not the most rational individual.
On the other hand, religious zealots like Ms. Brown usually reek with hypocrisy. For example, if something were to blow up in Ms. Brown's face in her kitchen while she was cooking and caused significant injury to her and endless physical pain, she'd likely resort to embryonic stem cells in a heartbeat to reverse all the damage done to her. If Jesus were to appear to her then and begged her not to do so, she wouldn't hesitate to tell him to take his Bible and stick it up his Christian fanny and rotate on it.
What it all boils down to is that religion simply has no place in modern medicine. I simply have no use for faith-based medicine, and a number of people feel the same way that I do about it.
Now, I'm not discounting all the good things that Catholic hospitals have done in the form of Saint Vincent's Hospital in New York City and Saint Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. However, when some religious zealot like Ms. Brown interferes with important advancements in medical science and medical technology, I cannot help but to snipe at her for sticking her nose where it doesn't belong.
6. Honor Thy Rapist Parent Or Abusive Parent? No Chance Of It!
One of the Ten Commandments orders each and every Christian to honor their father no matter how bad of a person he is. Moses himself was a product of incest. Therefore, how would he have really had a true concept of what a father is? He was also an assassin.
I was watching a video on YouTube in which a group of adults who self-identified as children of rape were each telling their story about how they found out that their respective biological fathers had raped their mothers and had gotten them pregnant with them. They all agreed that their biological fathers did not have the right to claim that they were their creators. Below is the video.
A Group Of Adults Self-Identifying As Children Of Rape Discuss Their Trials And Tribulations
All of these people in the video above proclaimed themselves to be Christians. All right. I find it admirable that none of them subscribe to the school of thought that their biological fathers gave them life and that they, therefore, are obligated to honor their biological fathers in accordance with one of the Ten Commandments in the Bible.
Nevertheless, there are Christian fundamentalists who strongly believe that if a man conceived you by raping your mother, you are obligated to spend Father's Day with him even if he is serving time behind bars for violent sex crimes. Usually, those same Christian fundamentalists are church ministers who brag about how their fathers were so good to them when they were growing up. Therefore, they wouldn't be able to understand the animosity that children of rape feel toward their biological fathers.
My response is that children of rape can honor their biological fathers by giving them honorable crucifixions. That is, drive stakes through their biological fathers' wrists and ankles and nail each of them to a cross. Of course, my proposal would not likely receive an endorsement from the Vatican. Oh, well, you can't please everyone.
Isn't it interesting how religious zealots are so dead set on waging war against medical science and medical technology; but when a child of rape decides to hate his or her biological father for what he did to the mother, somehow the Bible magically changes into a biology textbook? It's as though these religious zealots change their own opinions in a heartbeat to satisfy their agenda, even if those new opinions contradict their old ones.
If children of rape choose to be religious, I can respect their faith in a holy deity. However, at the same time, I can understand why any child of rape would want nothing to do with Christianity or any form of religion after some Bible-thumping idiot insisted that they throw themselves to the knees of their biological fathers despite that these men conceived them as a result of raping their mothers.
When you see your own biological father as nothing more than human garbage, it is so easy to become an agnostic or even an atheist. You don't want some religious zealot telling you how to live your life, because they have never walked in your shoes and have no idea of what you're going through. They don't see beyond their religious dogma.
It's like the old proverb that says that you can take the horse to the water, but you cannot make it drink. What part of that do these religious extremists not understand?
Now, I'm not saying that the offending biological parent in these events cannot be the mother. Women have been known to rape men and young boys and become pregnant with their babies.
This same rule applies to survivors of child abuse. When you look at the circumstances behind the reasons that Erik Menendez and his brother, Lyle Menendez, both murdered their father, you cannot really blame them for what they did. The court system certainly did a poor job of giving them a fair trial, because their criminal trial was not fair at all.
There's actually a verse in the Bible that allows for someone to sever all ties with either one of their parents that serves as a sort of loophole to the Biblical commandment that orders everyone to honor thy parents. Because I'm an agnostic, I do not remember specifically which verse that is; but it makes clear sense. If any of you know what that verse is, feel free to post it in the comments section to this article.
Now, if your parents were nurturing, protective, and loving and they did everything to raise you the right way, then I can fully agree with you that you're doing the right thing by being protective of them when they get into their old age. I don't believe that any mother who is a good parent to their kids from the time they take their first breath deserves to spend her last days being neglected in a nursing home.
On the other hand, if your parent or parents were violent and abusive with you when you were growing up, I feel that you have every right to sever all ties with them. At the same time, I feel that you should contest their last will and testament if they disinherit you, because you didn't spend all those years suffering mistreatment at their hands to end up destitute and perhaps even homeless.
If you're a child-abuse or incest survivor and one or both of your parents were the culprits in your troubled childhood, then I can fully understand why you would find agnosticism or atheism to be attractive. You don't want to listen to some religious zealot preaching the Bible to you and telling you what they think is the right thing for you to do when they don't even have the faintest idea of what the trauma is like that you're still experiencing because of your violent childhood.
Even if your father was a deadbeat teenage dad or any kind of deadbeat dad, you have every right to hate him and shut him out of your life. There are way too many kids growing up poor because of men like these. Therefore, never mind what the Bible has to say about it. It's your life. It's your choice.
7. Final Thoughts
I could give you an entire grocery list of things that annoy me about religious extremists, but I don't want this article to be a hundred pages long. I'm not someone who believes in ghosts, although I've had a few unexplainable encounters of my own of that nature. What really eats at me is that religious extremists insist that all ghosts are demons.
I don't even believe in demons. On the other hand, I don't overlook the fact that some really bizarre events took place at the house on Long Island that was said to be haunted in the movie The Amityville Horror and its sequels. I remember one video on YouTube in which the people in it showed a picture of what looked like a 10-year-old boy in that same house that was said to be really an evil spirit.
The little boy had sort of an empty facial expression, and he had skin that looked gray instead of flesh-colored. Anyone can claim anything on social media nowadays and photoshop strange images to make them look real, but this is the kind of weird photograph that you never forget once you see it.
I still resent it whenever a religious extremist will get on social media and claim something ludicrous like saying that reincarnation is a thing of the devil rather than something real. I guess the Bible thumpers are still angry at the late Dr. Ian Stevenson for interviewing a group of people who claimed they were reincarnations of suicide victims. Below is a video that sums up the ills of religious dogma.
Religious Extremism May Very Well Be A Mental Illness In Disguise
When I was a kid, one of my history teachers once told me that at one time religious congregations believed that tomatoes were the food of Satan inasmuch as they were red. I don't remember what era he said it was that this belief was shared. My current research indicates that it was in the sixteenth and seventeenth century when people held these ridiculous beliefs about tomatoes.
One thing I could never figure out was why televangelists like the late Pat Robertson would condemn psychic abilities as being Satanic, but they have never attacked superstitions as being demonic. For example, the belief that everyone encounters bad luck on Friday the 13th. A co-worker of mine said it was because the late Mr. Robertson didn't get anything out of debunking superstitions.
In hindsight, I think that televangelists and other religious extremists don't attack superstitions, because their own religions are superstitions for the most part. Therefore, they'd be sniping at their own system of beliefs.
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