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Religion is based on allegory, its only philanthropic goal is to teach us morals and make our lives here on earth better. It's when zealots take these allegories literally (and don't get me started on organized religion... spirituality for a stipend) do they undermine the intended function of religion, and instead focus on showing the rest of the world "the truth" by force if necessary.
Those of us with no faith have nothing to fear from the intelligent theists who understand the purpose of scriptures; we have a lot to fear from those who read the bible as non-fiction.
Man's greatest capacity is that of abstract thought and symbolic meaning, when we ignore that power, we're merely trained animals.
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I am the very model of a moderator gentleman.
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