"Religion is a security blanket. No longer needing one to get through your day is an important part of growing up."
I believe that being raised in a faith is useful. It gives children a sense of order and justice in the universe, something to cling to. It also helps teach the basics like the golden rule and rights and wrongs. So, in this sense religion is kinda like training wheels for being a responsible, moral human being.
In today's world of single parent homes and two career households, the Mom's and the Dad's aren't always there to teach the big lessons and make sure the kids are getting them straight. That's why it's good to a have a study book like a bible where all the stuff is written down. But like in school, the books can be wrong or the answers controverted by new scientific data. Eventually, you have to cast them aside.
Wow, the analogies are really piling up around here.
My point is that we (America) have spent hundreds of billions of dollars and taken hundreds of thousands of lives in recent years fighting people who can't accept anything that controverts what their religions have taught them. We have a President who's core grip on reality and life, his ultimate guidance, comes from a book of often self contradicting and factually discredited texts. We are a nation led by a religious fundamentalist in a deathlock with other religious fundamentalists.
This must stop. Idealogical wars rarely ever end. They just have extended "time outs." I'd like to call a time out and give folks a little while to grow up a bit and leave their security blankets with Goodwill.
(See? It all tied back into that first lame analogy.)
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