What is the most disturbing fact you know about religion?

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That asking for forgiveness by way of prayer absolves sins and that it's okay to continue to carry on with life. Repentance is not a ritual. It is a deed. It needs to form change and make things better. Saying 3 hail marys till the next rape doesn't make it repentance.

LordShadowfire · 46-50, M

@conscienceforsale Wait, so you mean Adolf Hitler isn't in heaven? What about Jeffrey Dahmer?

conscienceforsale · 46-50, M

Ah... heaven and hell. That is the other disturbing "fact"...

conscienceforsale · 46-50, M

@LordShadowfire According to some religions if they had "repented" they'd be in "heaven".

PS: I am an atheist. As for Adolf Hitler or Jeffrey Dahmer I hope they're rotting somewhere uncared.

LordShadowfire · 46-50, M

@conscienceforsale I agree. I'm not precisely an atheist, but the gods I believe in don't have any contradictions that I know of. They don't claim to be simultaneously 100% good, 100% knowledgeable, and all-powerful. Epicurus very eloquently explained why that doesn't work.