Religion+Politics=Bad for students

**TheVitaleMob** · 11-11-2005, 01:53 AM

Alright, linky no worky because it was from Google News.

Anyway, it was a link to the story about including intelligent design in the classroom in Kansas. Now, I was raised a Catholic, and am very rapidly becoming(sp) unreligious. IMHO, most religious organizations are based on guilt and politics, and as George Carlin once said, are trying to control your mind because thats the game they're in. I try to be a good person, helping people if i can, but i don't think that I need to feel guilty because of original sin, or for the idea that God sent his son to us and we killed him. I also royaly hate the fact that these people feel the need to tell me what to do, and that I should be guilty. I have seriously considered buying that bumper sticker "Lord save me from your followers" many times. I don't subscribe to Darwinism either, but I don't think that Intelligent Design is science. In fact, most religions are mutally exclusive with some areas of science.

Now, that being said, I do understand that there are many people that belong to religious organizations that do not behave the way I have stated above, good for you, you are rational people. I like you. I just can't stand it when somebody thinks that I should be sorry and guilty for something that I have not done.