The great religious con trick

[Dawkinsrocks]

At the start of the 20th century a couple of guys travelled around the US selling bottles of coloured water

One was pink and one was blue

They told people that the blue stuff would make pregnant women give birth to a boy and the pink a girl

And here's the genius part

They said that if it doesn't work the customer could have their money back

And as they were right fifty percent of the time they made a fortune

Religion is exactly the same

It is sold -yes literally sold- to people with the promise that if you drink it you will go to heaven

Worse still, if you don't you will go to hell

In this case nobody can come back and ask for a refund because the genius of this fraud is you only find out if it works after you have died

But in principle religion and the sale of coloured water are identical

False hope for suckers at a price that makes the vendor rich

 

[Aus22]

no major religion promise you if you join you will go to heaven. You must live a good life first.

 

[Dawkinsrocks]

Yes, as part of the control over poor idiots the inventors of religion have said 'give us your money, do as we say and you will get presents'

Obviously in the weird flavour of religion you have chosen this good life includes fucking little boys, selling babies, burning people at the stake, cannibalism, larceny, money laundering and transvestisism

 

[Aus22]

The Religions I was referring to were the Catholic, The Orthodox and Mainstream Protestant. While people of these religions sometimes commit crimes , no one is guarantee heaven

 

[Dawkinsrocks]

Sometimes?

The catholic church is an industrial processor of paedophiles

Funny how homophobic it is when most of its priests are gay

But then most Catholics are very poor badly educated people who will swallow anything

 

[GBFan]

Do you guys just feed off each other?

You sure take a lot of interest in trying to disprove something you already don't believe in ...

Your loss.

 

[GenSeneca]

'give us your money, do as we say and you will get presents'

How is that different from the way you think Government should function?

 

[Dawkinsrocks]

Simple

Government does exist and you do get presents. God doesn't and you don't

With government you get education and roads and all the other stuff you right wingers benefit from whilst decrying