Wormhole Me Some Ike T., Bitch

This post started as an Idea Vortex, but it's gone spiraling out of control.

I was thinking passively about tragedy on an epic scale and its relationship with how people perceive things as being the will of god, or that some scintilla of good can be perceived as the outcome of an omni-benevolent, omniscient, omnipotent being meddling in the deeds of evil men.

It occurred to me that I can actually put into words one of the reasons I loathe religion in all its forms:

I resent the implication that there is any justification for the heinous acts committed by man.

When I was younger, I went on this two week trip called The March of the Living. The first week consisted of traveling through Poland touring concentration camps, and the second week was spent in Israel, touring the countryside, celebrating the jewish new year, and explaining that this tract of land smaller than Rhode Island was their pitiful godly justification as the "good" that came out of the Holocaust.

When a man on death row for killing 25 people says he's found Jesus, most christians will tell you that he's going to heaven - at least by the standards their religion functions under.

Simple examples, sure. However, there is no legitimate justification for the actions that led to the creation of Israel, just as there is no justification for the actions taken by our mass murderer friend.

Personal and social responsibility, where hast thou gone.

Also, if you need a lecture on the nefarious workings of religion throughout the course of man, I encourage you to simply open a history book.

Thanks for playing.

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