This is a quote from a Facebook group page called “Religion is Cancer”:

“Religion is an embarrassing human practice of convincing the mind to ignore common sense, logic, reason and evidence while blindly believing in ancient fairy tales. It encourages its followers to value faith over facts and reality. It makes its followers proud instead of being ashamed of their ignorance.”

If any reasonable person would take the time to look at all of the other things people of the time of the Bible believed they would understand that the Bible and other “holy” works were simply products of gross ignorance trying to explain a world they did not know or even begin to understand.

After all, at that time, the earth was flat and you might sail off of the edge; the sun and the stars all revolved around the earth; and the earth was held up on pillars by elephants or Atlas depending on the myth of the time, just to name a few.

We can even look at the Bible itself to realize the ridiculousness of some of these beliefs. God’s apparent need to confuse men’s tongues to prevent them from building a tower to heaven: the tower of Babel. A man and his family building a boat big enough to house, feed and otherwise care for two of every animal in the world so they could repopulate the earth after a flood that covered the entire planet up to the greatest mountain: Noah and his ark. A man surviving for days in the belly of a fish or whale, depending on your version of that story. A man surviving in a lion’s den. And of course their universal save for statements in the Bible that even the faithful can’t ignore, those are simply metaphors, which is basically saying, “Even I can’t believe this to be true so it must have some deeper meaning we were not meant to understand.”

Yeah, and I’ve got some ocean front property in Arizona I’d like to sell you.

Belief in these fairy tales has been the cause of more death and destruction than almost any other cause since the beginning of time and yet we still cling to them. To most reasonable people it simply boggles the mind. When people talk about going to Bible studies I can never figure out why no one seems to ask any of the difficult questions. Just sayin’.

Larry Benson

Enumclaw