Letters to the Editor
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Mental Diseases
Religions...
Are a mental disease. -- johnnyrandom
I no more can prove the existence of God then you can dis-prove it. I have watched debates between atheists and the religious and it is theater of the absurd. It's like arguing how far is up. I am not talking about proving a negative. You stated that before death and after life there is nothing. Can you prove this? Because nobody knows is not proof. There is general agreement about infinity such as numbers can go on "forever". But how do we know? Isn't it just not being able to get to the end or know the end that proves infinity? You are right though in that the "not knowing" leaves the door open to every kind of windbag, charlatan, hypcrite, liar and crook but it also leaves the door open for many people to something much greater than that.
Anyways I more believe being human is the mental disease. As you state just look at history, plenty of insanity there with and without religion. And if I look at my own life and all of the people around me, or the comments on this board, well it's the same story - a bunch of troubled human beings doing the best they can to rise above the disease.
That atheists are descriminated against is despicable, I don't know if returning the favor in kind helps though.