Evangelicals Miss The Point

Evangelical teens rally in S.F.: "Luce didn't flinch in the face of the counterprotest. The author, host of the 'Acquire the Fire TV' cable television program and a President Bush appointee to a federal anti-drug-abuse commission, wants teens to find Bible-based solutions for the spread of sexually transmitted disease, teen pregnancy, drug abuse and suicide."

Every Saturday, I invite the Jehovahs Witnesses into my house to chat. Every time they're shocked to find that I'm an athiest and actually have values. And every time we end up talking about how their system of beliefs requires SO much more than mine and delivers SO much less.

Mine delivers independence, happiness, a sense of purpose, meaning, satisfaction, and a connection to those around me.

Theirs delivers the same, but it also delivers fear of the wrath of God, the necessity to come up with explanations as to why bad things happen to good people, the denial of the world around them, the need to come up with even more round-about explanations for the world in order to continue to suspend their disbelief of what they actually see, and the daily incorporation of superstician into their lives.

The bible doesn't provide any solutions for the spread of disease, pregnancy, drug abuse, or suicide. People were FAR more religious even 50 years ago and their was as much or more disease, pregnancy, drug abuse, and suicide then than now. The religious thrive off of ignorance and disinformation.

Have you ever wondered why AlAno doesn't publish recividity rates or success rates for their program? It's because they're likely as good as having not gone at all. Do you want to know why religious organizations that believe in spiritual healing don't track their sucess rates? It's because they don't succeed.

The facts are on the side of science, again and again. Everyone dies. Disease is prevented by education. Sex is good for everyone. Pregnancy rates and abortion rates decline with good, well rounded secular educations (and not religious ones).

Religion, on the other hand, is perpetually wrong ABOUT EVERYTHING. I feel bad to say it, but everyone from the Pope to the Dahlai Llama is just wrong and has not a single leg to stand on that can support their beliefs. I don't hate them. I just think it's a waste of their time . . . especially because it requires such a high level of commitment from EVERYONE else to keep the illusion going.

Anyway, sorry to the religious for that. I don't mean to hurt your feelings. But, I feel like you're really hurting the prospects of America by spending so much time by trying to make everyone believe in ghosts, all powerful invisible men, and man with red skin, horns and a goatee. It's just stupid. Really.