Writer's Block: International Skeptics Day

[sekiharatae]

I'm skeptical that the average human being uses its brain to make decisions. 

I'm skeptical that any of the Republican presidential nominees know what Christianity actually is.  

I'm skeptical that anyone who interprets the Bible as censuring homosexuality has ever read the rest of the Good Book.  I'm especially skeptical that they take the rest of the prohibitions -- explicitly stated, no spin required -- as seriously as the one that lets them freely hate other people.

I'm skeptical that organized religion is a good thing. 

I'm skeptical that aspartame has no unhealthy side effects.

Finally, I'm skeptical that I'll finish cleaning house before my best friend arrives.

Comments

[sekiharatae.livejournal.com]

Exactly on the aspartame. My dad is a chemist (retired now), and he looked at what it was and said flat out that it was bad.

As for spirituality, that's essentially why I specified 'organized' religion rather than just religion. Individual belief in god is a marvelous thing; I don't have it, but I can see why a person would benefit, and I have no gripes. Organized religion, on the other hand, tends to use faith as an excuse to promote ignorance, war, prejudice... pretty much all the ills most religions claim to be against. Some version of the mob mentality at work I suppose.

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