Time For Rational Thought

What do GW Bush, Ayatollah Khameni  the Nazis and Christians  have in common?

They all believe God wants them to kill the other religion's followers.

Bush said God told him to kill Arabs in Iraq, that it was Gog and Magog.

The Ayatollah says God wants him to kill Jews, it's in the Koran.

To the Nazis, Hitler was God, and his followers, mostly devout Christians, did the actual pushing of the Jews into the ovens.

Whenever people believe in an ideology that is completely groundless, when they have faith in an ideology based on fantasy, that has no factual basis, they need someone or some thing to tell them what to do.

Since there is no God, the person telling them what God wants them to do is going to be a man, like Jimmy Swaggert or Ted Haggart or Reverend Jim Jones or Ayatollah Khomeini or Hitler, and that man has an incredible power to manipulate, since people fervently believe in him.

Muslims and Christians have been murdering each other for centuries,

because they think that's what God wants them to do.

Muslims murder other Muslims for the same reason, Sunni Muslims think God wants them to murder Shiite Muslims and Shiites think God wants them to murder Sunnis.

Their one degree of unity is their shared belief that God wants both of them to murder Jews.

Christians have historically had this view as well, as evinced by the crusades and Nazism.

Currently, Christians love Jews, apparently someone told them that Jesus was a Jew.

But that could change, some charismatic preacher could tell Christians that Jews did indeed kill Jesus, and since there is no God to tell them anything different, the Christians could happily resume their Jew killing proclivity.

Another problem with these two religions, that is, Christianity and Islam, is that they both predict the world will end in a big ball of fire, that God predicted it, and that nuclear war is not necessarily a bad thing.

Christians say things like”I will be raptured and taken up to the glory of God.”

Muslims say, “It is in our book. We have to kill the Jews for the prophet to return.”

This is insanity.

Sane people need to speak up.

When enough people believe in a God whose plan includes destroying our planet, when both sides have nuclear weapons and actually could destroy the planet, betting that your God is the right one is a fool's bet.

There are millions of rational thinkers in the U.S. And Europe and elsewhere, they need to speak up, otherwise the predictions of those who believe in fantastical deities may make their beliefs in total destruction a self fulfilling prophecy.