Why isn't religion dead already?

Is it just me, or has religion really boomed after the turn of the millenia?
...because I refuse to believe, that the same planet where its inhabitants play around with quantum physics, is the same planet where the majority actually believe that supernatural superheroes exist. They believe in the equivalent of Santa Claus and build nuclear bombs, and the one country with the most nukes, still has religious wars against other countries.
When the most important job in the world, does not screen people for schitzophrenic delusions, then why are we so eager to focus on building smaller transistors, when that's not the main problem?

We have mass communication now. We've had it for awhile. We not only have radio, but television, and better yet: The internet. ...and anyone who has access to the internet, has access to sites like Wikipedia, where you can look up how things actually work in the world, scientifically.

...and with these advances at our fingertips, I would have expected that people would almost *accidentally* discover that the Bible is a fairly tale, along with all the other religious texts.

...but no, this isn't a new age of enlightenment. This is an age of stupidity. Instead of learning how the world actually works, nutters use the internet to learn how to present themselves, and win debates, and how to appear as if they're right, and as long as there is a single nutcase believing in some weird religion, you can count on at least YouTube being there for him to make him famous. You can get subscribers even if you're *stupid* enough, because people will watch that for entertainment.

...but it's not really the *extreme* nutters that baffle me. It's the statistics that show how *many* nutters there are. "The western world" has long been a synonym with civilization, so when I learned that the *majority* of all people in the US, are complete idiots, I completely lose faith in humanity. I would expect some native tribes in the jungle of Africa, to still believe in gods, because they don't have the means to look up how stuff works on Wikipedia, so they *have* to rely on more primitive theories, but it turns out that the US is just as bad.

Even in this day, with all the archeological and astronomical discoveries we've made, people still have the audacity to claim that atheists can't prove that God doesn't exist. ...and atheists *go along* with this, and say that they *can't* prove that God doesn't exist, despite science being able to disprove Genesis, skeptics listing lots and lots of absurdities and inconsistencies, and the obvious lack of anything supernatural or miraculous in the world (that isn't debunked as hoaxes within months). The atheists are just barely more intelligent than the religious people on this planet!

When you are taught science in school, atheism ceases to be "just another belief". Christians often pose the question "Well what if God came down from Heaven and appeared before you, would you believe in him then?", and anybody reasonable would do that if they were confronted with evidence, yet every child in the western world is confronted with evidence of a godless universe in science class, where no factor in any equation is "The will of God". ...and at that point, when you are confronted with the evidence, atheism ceases to be a belief, and becomes plain sanity, and all the beliefs in gods, become insanity. It's not even stupidity anymore, when you can easily access any part of what you might have missed in class, on Wikipedia. Religion is now a schizophrenic delusion - especially the largest religion in the world: Christianity.

At least during the cold war, people took nuclear weapons seriously. They were afraid, and they *should* be afraid. They should *still* be afraid, but not because of some *other* country, but the leaders of their *own* country "acting with accordance to the Bible", or "hearing God commanding them".

Even now the US is still torturing random people in camps, and shooting people in the streets, because the last president was a nutcase. ...and if the voting results are to be believed, most people in the US is okay with that. It wasn't just *other* countries that he destroyed, as he systematically robbed his own country both of money and privacy, while chanting "Freedom!".

...but Bush didn't use nukes. He did a lot of crazy things, but he didn't use nukes. ...which is just sheer luck, considering how nuts he was. Would he have done that, then maybe even a *lot* of you would go "Heeey! Wait a minute!", because it looks like *that*'s what it takes to make you get that electing him president, wasn't such a great idea. ...after which the majority of you, have about a days worth left to live on this planet before the nukes explode all over the place. ...but for at least that day, you'd reconsider whether a religious person would be mentally fit enough to be in any position of power.

It's not hard to screen for it either. Instead of "Do you believe in flying green monkeys?", just ask "Do you believe in a god?". Yes, it's called religious discrimination, and it needs to be legalized throughout the world, because we can't have it run by nutters.

Religion is fun

>>2
Yes, within psychology, they acknowledge that people can be insane because they *gain* something from it. This is why religion views the desperate as recruitment material to exploit: Because some people are desperate enough to believe anything.

...especially if you serve it in a fun and colorful package. Few (if any) religions, market themselves as a religion of war that demands rules to be followed. Instead they all call themselves "religions of peace", and lures people in with social circles and kindness, just like any other cult.

...but religion isn't fun. It *starts out* fun, but as you peel away at what's actually beneath the surface, you have dieties murdering every firstborn child and exterminating races, and it's all done for next to no reason, because (and in the book of Job the christian god openly *admits* this) religion reasons that when you are all-powerful, you don't have to answer to anybody - you can make up your own rules and kill whoever you want. That's like calling mass-murderers "messengers of peace", but religious nutters *love* this, because they can *use* this. If they hate gays, or don't want to work on holidays, or can't stand people who don't think their way, they think that they can dodge the blame of being intolerant assholes, by simply claiming that it's not *their* will: "It's the will of *God*. Don't look at me like that. I just think our homo-hating god is a swell guy who's right about everything - that's all."

"Religion is fun" in the same sense that a rabid dog is "fun". ...and people on 4chan would typically call it "fun" to let a rabid dog loose on random people, but even *we* have to admit that it stops being fun when the dog bites *your* leg. When you have only suicide bombers, the chance of getting blown up yourself, is statistically very slim. ...but it's a *certainty* that mass surveillance and airport security will affect you at least indirectly. Then religion stops being "fun".

...and it's not islams fault that you have that shit. It's christianity's fault. (Never mind that 9/11 was a direct response to the US occupying the middle east since the Gulf war, because anybody who believes that the US didn't deserve 9/11, is a complete and utter moron.) Would you actually have screened the presidential canidates for idiocy and lunacy, you wouldn't have people in positions of power in the US, who invades countries over bullshit like finding a missing person. There are several ways that you could have handled 9/11, and invading Afghanistan was a *five year olds* way of handling it. ...and they get to these positions of power, by every election year claiming that they believe in the Bible over anything else, and people love them for it. As long as you can keep a straight face on for 30 minutes, and read what's on a teleprompt, then all you have to do, is to declare yourself completely religiously insane, to be approved by the idiotic people of the US.

I keep getting back to the US like it's the only theocratic country in the world, and of course that's false. The US may be the most *studied* example of a first world country, but it's far from the only one.

...but how can we even call ourselves members of "the first world", if we're insane enough to worship books? Again, that's what third world *tribes* do! All the hamburgers and espresso machines in the world doesn't mean shit, if your country doesn't have a cure against the religious epidemic. "Sure, since ten years back we're had a zombie outbreak that turned our country into a wasteland, but as long as the zombies don't break into McDonalds and Starbucks, I'd say that we're still a first world country."

...but no, religion isn't fun. It's as "fun" as any *other* sort of mass delirium.

Whoa nigga, do you really expect me to read all that shit?

>>4
Read as far as your attention span will take you. Think of it as an adventure.

*It* *gladdens* *me* *immensely* *whenever* *I* *find* *a* *fellow* *intellectual* *who* *doesn't* *subscribe* *to* *the* *lies* *of* *religion* *on* *the* *internet*.

**tips* *fedora**

>>5
attention span

More like I don't have the time to read the drivel of every madman who crosses my way. I have to be discriminating.

Yes, within psychology, they acknowledge that people can be insane because they *gain* something from it.

No they don't, it is generally recognized that there are physiological causes that someone has little control over.

In the trash it goes.

>>7
If you don't want "madmen crossing your way", why are you here? Did you take a wrong turn somewhere on the internet highway, or did you reckon that 4chan is where the sane and sharp people hang out?

...or maybe (and this is very likely) you just come to these boards because you like to think highly of yourself for not reading, not listening, and not learning. To you, "trash" is treasure - fuel to burn for your self-confidence.

I imagine that it's very easy for you to find "trash" as well, if all you have to do, is to find several cases and viewpoints from where something "isn't" true. Either that, or you have a desperate craving for it.

>>8
le pedophile sage