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hello Thomas Westbrook here have you
ever wondered why do a theist get so
angry
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100 years it's not that long there are
people alive today older than that
my grandmother's pushing that milestone
but a lot can change in that short
amount of time a hundred years ago
schools were segregated women couldn't
vote and homosexuals were
institutionalized for the crime of
loving each other 98 years ago the
Spanish flu infected 500 million people
and had a death toll over 3 times higher
than World War 1 since that time a
myriad of other diseases have plagued
our world but smallpox was wiped from
the planet through global vaccination
efforts polio and measles have almost
been entirely eliminated through
vaccination and herd immunity the Gates
Foundation is on the cusp of eradicating
malaria within a generation and Mark
Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla have
pledged over three billion dollars
towards the elimination of all diseases
within the next hundred years in just a
hundred years we went from Amelia
Earhart's monumental transatlantic
flight to a worldwide interconnected
network of thousands of commercial
aircraft from horses and Model T's to
fast charging electric cars bullet
trains and highly intelligent
ride-sharing networks
agricultural breakthroughs brought us
out of the Dust Bowl and provided an
abundance of food for billions wealth
healthcare civil rights life expectancy
and the overall standard of living have
all risen across the globe while infant
mortality violence and crime continue to
fall and if that's not enough in our
knack for exploration and discovery we
landed a rover on Mars and a probe on a
comet we have an affordable
supercomputer in our pockets that's
millions of times more powerful than the
one that landed man on the moon oh and
did I mention that we put man on the
moon
more than once by the way we can even
built a laser off the retroreflectors we
left on there and measure the distance
from the moon to the earth with Moore's
law computer power is doubling every
couple years contrary to popular
Malthusian beliefs about scarcity
breakthroughs and water desalination
aquaculture and agriculture are turning
our planet into a world
of abundance this is without doubt the
greatest and most exciting time in
history to be alive but every time
there's progress there's inevitably
change and when a powerful conservative
vanguard bases its identity around a
doctor and the claims humanity is sinful
fallen and things are only getting worse
an ideology that glorifies human
suffering is a ticket for greater
heavenly rewards then why on earth would
they bother contributing to progress
when they could sit around for another
2,000 years playing spot the return of
the Jew God in an apocalyptic wet dream
this way of thinking is anti progressive
quicksand a science stifling quagmire of
the mind and it's justifiably madami so
why do I get angry I get angry when a
child dies from their parents self
perpetuated and societally accepted
ignorance where they refuse life-saving
medicine in favor of clasped hands and
wishful thinking despite the fact that
prayer studies have repeatedly debunked
the efficacy of prayer faith healing
homicide I get angry when the head of
the Catholic Church condemns the use of
condoms in countries so aids written
that their unilateral adoption could
have saved millions when scientifically
illiterate nitwits deny evolution and
climate change get elected into public
office and then propose some of the most
backwards and damaging laws that affect
all of us then fight to teach anti
scientific nonsense and schools
perpetuating the cycle of ignorance I
get angry when the same religion that
initially opposed in vitro fertilization
now blocked stem-cell research on the
clusters of cells and petri dishes left
over from IVF that are just gonna get
thrown away anyways why because that's a
human soul and every sperm is sacred or
when people like mother Teresa get
canonized as a saint even though she
created unhygenic houses of suffering
with abysmal conditions that reused
needles and focused more on saving souls
than saving lives because as she so
beautifully put it I think it's very
beautiful for the poor to accept their
lot to share it with the Passion of
Christ I think the world is being much
helped by the suffering of the poor
people
she created disgusting places for the
sick to go to get converted before they
die in misery Oh
but somehow elderly people suffering
excruciating pain from stage 4 bone
cancer are prohibited the right to
euthanasia because it's somehow taking
God's will into their own hands you've
got to be kidding me I get angry when
people are caught out of their money by
faith-healing charlatans who've been
debunked time and time again when they
could be investing in their own future
by donating to scientific research an
advancement of the entire human race or
when pseudo scientific new-age
whack-jobs cell untested placebos to the
gullible exploiting the needy when cold
reading fortune tellers lie and take
advantage of grieving and emotional
parents in order to get a buck saying
they can talk to their dead children
that's absolutely disgusting and
unforgivably sick I get angry when
pseudo scientific practitioners of whoo
mislead millions to line their own
pockets and I get angry when gays are
killed discriminated against lobotomized
or shame driven to suicide by religious
bigots when women gays and minorities
are treated like second-class citizens
and when a widely revered self
established institution claims the moral
high ground while covering up the
systematic raping of children and they
claim that atheists are immoral the same
atheists who call them on their crimes
yeah that's why I get angry and it's not
anger that drives me it's a love of
humanity science and progress it's hope
of a verifiably brighter future and
excitement that the prospects of human
potential but if I do get angry it's
because I give a damn and so should you
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don't let religion stifle progress and
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