You know, watching US TV I have to say that the movie Idiocracy is looking more and more true. Stupidity and ignorance seem to be increasing in social acceptability with intelligence being trusted less and less. Anyway, great movie...hope it isn't really the shape of things to come (this post may be colored by my watching MTV for the past couple of hours!)
Trailer is here:
The one statistic which got to me was a poll which states that in the USA more people would elect a gay person than an atheist; and even then Christians (assumed as only 'Catholic' appeared in the poll) are WAY more likely to get elected than almost any other group. This really saddens me, someone who chooses not to believe in the mythology of religion is MORE excluded than the group of people which the president specifically legislates against having certain civil rights (marriage)...though not by much!
It didn't take me long to discover that it's pointless debating religion with people in this country...talk about Religion as a virus! Some years ago I spent a decent amount of time (a couple of months) finding out all I could about as many religions as I could; I read the Christian Bible, the Bhagavad Gita, the Book of Mormom, the Qur'an and even Dianetics, I also read as much background as I could on these books (and a couple more I can't recall) and at that point made my decision that I could not accept that any of these religions had any ground in reality. Sorry if you're mad at me but it's my opinion...all of the books above were written by individuals, in some cases these individuals had extremely political motives for aligning a population with the 'rules' in these books and even sublimated existing religions to ease their introduction. I see the point they had but I don't see religion as a valid concept moving forward...
Ooh, first real rant on my new blog :-) Comment moderation will most certainly be ON for this one...intelligent arguments against my position are welcome, telling me I'm going to hell is pointless, for me it's like saying I'm going to Narnia :-) Oh and how much do I love Wikipedia!