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So, back to the original topic...
As with other people here, I dislike all religions I have come accross, but some morte than others.
Christianity really gets on my tits. There are some very powerfull and personally touching reasons given above, many of which I would endorse. The two cents I wanted to add was to comment on the apologist position that says that whilst christanity has had a strong negative impact at times in the past (crusades anyone?) that it should not be too strongly attacked as it provides a cohesive force in todays culture. Does it fuck. It provides a reactionary and positively dangerous influence. Ask any open minded American: I'm sure they'd say the same. Marx famously said that religion is the opiate of the masses: just as true today as when he originally said it. The intolerance that christianity engenders is so much more dangerous than a society of people forming their own ethical framework.
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Thus spake Zarathustra
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