The root of the word "religion" is usually traced to the Latin religare (re: back, and ligare: to bind), so that the term is associated with "being bound." We call it religion because it has nothing to do with reality. Religion is: like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it. Religion is: a dangerous mental virus. Religion is: and always has been in the business of selling you an invisible product. Religion is: not noticing that the invisible and the non-existent look very much alike. Religion is: the art of sugar coating a turd and selling it to you as doughnut. Religion is: regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. Religion is: an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance. Religion is: supporting child sacrifice. God sacrificed his own son. Religion is: having virgin priests rape small boys and girls. Religion is: about the barbarism of circumcision and the mutiliation of children's genetalia. Religion is: making a virtue of not having to think for yourself. Religion is: about making false promises and exagerated claims Religion is: mass psychosis. Religion is: a clinical psychotic reaction. Religion is: mob mentality at its worst. Religion is: the insanity of humanity. Religion is: the arrogance of its certitude Religion is: giving people without any answers all the answers Religion is: people watching The Flintstones as though it was a documentary Religion is: about superstition and the supernatural. Religion is: about cultivating ignorance. Religion is: a triumph of ignorance over intelligence Religion is: what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. Religion is: the propagation of idiocy. Religion is: organized fraud. Religion is: detrimental to the progress of society. Religion is: a force that must die in order that mankind can live. Religion is: making a virtue out of not thinking Religion is: where brains are tenderly washed, disinfected and made usable again. Religion is: what the clergy peddles to feed themselves. Religion is: what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

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