I have always wondered why people's IQ's drop the minute somebody takes out a book and claims: "God says..." and "God hates..."
I mean, HOW does ANYBODY know? How can anybody CLAIM to know? How can THEY claim to know? And yet they stake their own and other people's lives on this magical certainty... They judge and condemn other people (who generally are just minding their own business) out of some warm fuzzy feeling and go forth to beat them over the head with it like a weapon.
What it comes down to is this: Organized religion was and always will be about POWER and CONTROL.
In my time as a human rights activist have found it near impossible to engage persecutors without involving religion for the following reasons:
