Caution - religion is dangerous to your health!!

[Raoul]

Run time: 06:58 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SWZeYUQVFs   Posted on YouTube: October 22, 2010 By YouTube Member: raoul116 Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: October 22, 2010 By DU Member: Raoul Views on DU: 1029

 
The 2nd part in a series showing how religious freaks are destroying the very fabric of our society.

[TwentyFive]

1. Great Video!! Religion leads to fights, abuse, addiction, hate, depression and yes..death.

History of religion is bloody. Anytime you set up an impossible set of ethics, an "us vs them" "good vs evil" mentality...it seems that death and destruction will follow.

If a creator was smart enough to create everything...would that creator need to write a BOOK to communicate with us? I don't think so. Rather, I think man wrote the book to control people. The result is different men with control issues...and they send their people out to war. The Taliban, George Bush and now the Tea Party are only the latest examples.

[Raoul]

5. You raise an excellent point

about the book. People have it backwards in my opinion. They go to the book to find out about the Creator or Intelligence as I call it. They should be going to the book to VERIFY what their a priori sense has already revealed to them.

[rainlillie]

2. For every negative thing that is said about religion..

someone else can find something positive to say.

[bobbyr]

4. I disagree strongly!

If you are referring to true spirituality then I have no quarrel with you however if you are saying religion itself then you are completely wrong. The Xtian Way as it was called in the early centuries was never intended to be considered a religion by any stretch of the imagination.

Religion kills, Spirituality gives life.

[Raoul]

6. Excellent observation.

My wife, the Kat, demonstrates this every day of her life.

[rainlillie]

11. Yawn! Tiresome and tremulously boring.. Next!

[Raoul]

15. ????

Whom are you referring to?

[dddem]

7. I always tell my kids there is a huge diffence between faith and religion

I hope they have Faith. I want them to understand religion, but not accept it blindly. That's when it gets dangerous.
Peace.

[Raoul]

8. Your kids

have a very smart parent. Thanks.

[dddem]

18. They may disagree

But thank you!

[rainlillie]

12. Agreed. You should never follow anything or anyone blindly. I have also taught my

children to not bash or trash someone else's religious beliefs even if you don't agree with them and to learn to separate religious people from religious extremist. It's very uncool to generalize.

[Raoul]

14. Right again!

This is why I accept Hindus, Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, et. al. into our fold. The religious extremists I go after, especially whom I call pulpit pimps, are the right wing neocon xtian sect in this country that makes up about 1/4 of us but get the most attention. They are totally convinced that their way is the ONLY way for salvation, family values, society in general, et. al.

I have studied them for years and have reached the same conclusion as Chris Hedges, author of American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War On America. He, and I agree they are more of a danger to us than any foreign threat. They are the real terrorists. I've infiltrated their blogs and read things that have caused many a sleepless night. I'll be talking about this in future videos.

[bobbyr]

3. Super cool video!

You folks remind me alot of my own grandparents who are totally cool. My grandpop at the age of 70 still rides his motorcycle. It scares the crap out of my Dad (his son) but I totally love it! Your video says so much about the religiosity as I call it in our country. True spirituality and religion are enemies of each other. It's a shame that so many people don't get this. You both seem to get it in spades.

Thanks for posting this and I'm gonna share it with my dorm friends tonight.

[EnviroBat]

9. I wish you two were my neighbors!

I'm surrounded on all sides by Right Wing dipshits.

:mad:

[Raoul]

10. Hey man or lady

What makes you think I'm not (your neighbor) ROFL
Case in point - we are also surrounded by those same aholes. I call it flag city - everyone has a flag flying all year around. The people across the street are your cookie cutter right wing xtians - grandkids home schooled, everyone with that holier than thou look on their faces.

I remember one time when I was still talking to the clown (I don't now), I'd said something about always wanting to visit France for a vacation if I ever had the chance. He ridiculed it by saying that America has everything you need to see right here and that Europe was 'old school' - a term taken directly from the war criminal, former def. sec. Rumsfeld - dunno if you recall that term being tossed around when France opposed our illegal invasion of Iraq.

He went on bleating about how this is the greatest country in the world, yaddy ya ya and whatever. I wanted to put my foot down his throat - not because he expressed the right wing mantra but because during this time my wife had been fired from a company she'd been with a decade only because of profit motive and bottom line. The company hired her back at part time and no benefits.

I wanted to go postal on that friggin company because they did something to my baby without cause and they didn't really have to do it. They could have gotten rid of my wife's co-worker who did absolutely nothing every day. They didn't because the co-worker was part of the good ole boy network and the CEO of the company later said to my wife that he figured she was more qualified and could get another job quickly if she looked than the poor co-worker.

All of this was running around in my head while this ahole was gushing about how great it is over here.

Sorry for going on and on but I think I made my point - I have the same aholes around me.

Oh, and postscript, the parent company immediately grabbed my wife from the subsidiary she'd worked for at a higher pay, benefits, etc.

[stuckinarut]

13. Great video!

You are definitely on to something here.  I agree with almost
everything you said.
I live in NH where we have the lower rates.  We are taught sex
ed in 5th grade, funny story, I was taught by my school
principal (at the time I was "dating" his
daughter)and got a bunch of crap from the other kids..  It is
a strange thing to learn in school, but it was very important.
 We were split by gender, and from what I can remember we
giggled most of the time because we had to use the scientific
terms for things.  Overall it was very informative.

[Raoul]

16. What do you mean

you agree with 'almost' everything we say? You better start agreeing with 'everything' we say. And I don't care whose daughter you dated. ROFL,,,ROFL,,,,ROFL...

Nice try - the principal's daughter eh? Care to tell me what your grades were that year? Or did he/she spot your ruse? LOL

When I was taught it we giggled even more. Know why? We weren't separated - girls and boys all in one room and it made for a very interesting session. I vaguely remember the teacher becoming frustrated with our cackelling(sic) and guffaws and finally gave up teaching it.

[Raoul]

17. This just in...

In the video I mentioned something about confirmations always following something we talk about. On the home page of DU part of the following was posted. The nutjob, another pulpit pimp, is making a threat like a baby with a temper tandrum. If he doesn't get his way some bad things are gonna happen. Is it any wonder why I find them so dangerous?

"Republican congressional candidate Stephen Broden stunned his party Thursday, saying he would not rule out violent overthrow of the government if elections did not produce a change in leadership. In a rambling exchange during a TV interview, Broden, a South Dallas pastor, said a violent uprising "is not the first option," but it is "on the table.""end of quote from DU..