Wisconsin State Rep: ‘The Earth Is 6,000 Years Old, That’s A Fact’

Nobody knows the origin or what even created our world. There is massive speculation and evidence that would scientifically and logically make sense... Yet most of us believe in something that is beyond reality, beyond science, and purely made as a crutch for the human race to have faith in something, simply because these type of people are either too afraid to live without believing in something more, or are not educated enough to see past the obvious bullshit they were brought up on and change their ideas/ways. I feel as if having a super religious parent would almost be considered abuse. I know that is crazy sounding, but what the fuck right do you have to brainwash a kid like that to the point they hate another religion, person, or persons with ideals, simply due to their beliefs. I mean, its basically survival of the smartest... And considering the fact that atheism, agnosticism and more accepting sects of the church are taking over our world, I believe in time things will heavily change in the USA, specifically. Hate to say it, but the Middle East is a mess and always has been. They will never solve their religious issues at the rate they are going, nor will they find a way to relax to their own beliefs with these extremist pieces of shit.

tl;dr - Learn to live tolerantly and don't waste your life on another person or religion. What do you have to show for in your idea of "heaven" when all you were was a dick head to others, praying towards, what I believe, is the exact same idea.

I am atheist, but I do not hate on religion, I just want to fully understand why people are so soaked into it. I just believe in the reality that religion is all a big extremist conglomeration. You don't see groups of non-religious people gearing up to cause fear or killing others who don't believe the same idea. It's fucking sick. And then Donald Trump and Mike Pence and the rest of the Catholic or Christian based govt, points at Islam indirectly and makes all these idiots, yes they are our neighbors, believe that Muslim people are out to kill us all. And don't bs me about terror events. In reality they are so rare, still, in relation to their frequency vs the amount of people living on our planet, that it is impossible to place blame anywhere. ISIS is obviously real, they could easily be causing most of these events. Just because they claim them though, doesn't mean there is direct relation. It's an impossible world to judge, so I understand peoples sketicism... But anymore, it's more fear driving your lives, not the ideas of the religion that you devoted your body, mind and spirit to.

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