eye of the divine said:
I feel like this is quite sad, not in the petty way this is happened. The fact is religions teach tolerance and as soon as someone or a company admits they are they get swamped with hate. So much for treating others how you wish to be treated.
I'm not so sure they do, do they? The Old Testament, amongst other eye-opening statements, says it's perfectly alright for you (and expected of you) to stone your neighbour to death if they don't believe in that particular God or attempt to worship a different one. That doesn't sound very tolerant to me! The Qu'ran is just as bad. Buddhism is the only one that's peaceful, isn't it (well, I guess Mormonism is as well, if you can count that as a religion).
The modern day versions of most religions try to conveniently forget the violent, brutal, barbaric, and intolerant parts of their particular religion, but the actual texts that the religions are based on are pretty intolerant (as far as I remember from school a long time ago!).
What still blows my mind is how anybody in the western world, that has access to vast amounts of knowledge and information and are well educated and otherwise rational, still somehow convince themselves that there's a dude sitting on a cloud making everything happen. And, to make matters worse, arguably the most powerful guy on the planet - the US president - would never be elected if he/she openly said "I don't believe in heaven or hell, and this whole god idea was all made up by primitve people a very long time ago. It's time to move on". The guy with the nuke codes and in charge of a huge military force has to say that an imaginary person exists. Amazing.
