The narrator of the video is a very passionate atheist, which you can see immediately and throughout the video. He uses very striking facts about our society and people to show the terrible things many of us inflict unto our children by telling them lies about religion.
It's very bold, this video, and it does not hesitate to get right down to the facts. I really admire the narrator for that, because looking at what we're dealing with it is quite obviously no time to beat around the bush.
I am an atheist. I always have been. And though my parents are/were no sort of conservative christians, they still told me what was "right" about their religion and discouraged my adventuring into other religions and values. This is something that I very much resent, especially from a religion that I have grown to detest. It was childish of my parents to do this and while I do not hold it against them, I wish that they had given me a choice, because I cannot remember a single time in my life when I believed any of the far-fetched lies that were shoved down my throat about religion. I know that I've talked about this before, but it's this kind of evidence of prejudice and stupidity (and, as mentioned in the video, bigotry) that we need to address.
Let's go back in time a bit. Now, while it's undeniable that religion brought good things to our society, it has brought far more bad things. Looking to the middle ages, we see that religion had almost no positive effects. People lived their lives terrified of divine judgement, artists did not venture from traditional and bland religious artwork for centuries, and many innocent people were killed in ignorant fear. The crusades represent a huge and undeniable relation between catholicism and violence that is still true today. The Jews were prosecuted for a very long time as well, even though they believed in the same god as the Catholics and did not bring anything negative to society, in fact just the opposite. I could go on, but the fact is everyone knows, or rather should know, these truths about the atrocities that god-fearing people have brought and continue to bring to the world.
I mean, look at this country. When it was founded, it was clearly meant to be a country in which religion played no part. We didn't want to have a government that was at all similar to the monarchy we were under. Obviously, this dream is not yet realized. Why do we allow one group of people to have so much influence over all of us? Why are atheists, the neutrals of the group, also the most hated? Atheists are proven to be far more intelligent than their religious counterparts. Is it because Americans fear what is different and advantageous? Haha, I don't want to start sounding like a bigot myself. Well, moving on.
One thing which I found to strike especially true about the video is to NOT TELL OUR CHILDREN LIES ANYMORE. Why do we toy with children this way? Admittedly it's fun to have them believe in things like Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny, but we give them a choice in this. We don't force them to believe in and worship these idols weekly or year round. And most often children grow out of these things. But with religion, children aren't given a choice. They aren't given straight answers or proof, and they're told to deny logic and reason if favor of some huge lie, and they really pay the price. Just look at the statistics pertaining to criminals and their religions as well as child abuse.
It's just another thing that we cannot allow to continue! I'd really like to hear your opinions on this as well as any comments on the article or video.
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