Good or bad - right or wrong laws are reflective of the elected officials that have been elected to the positions they hold - these individuals were elected by their constituents- everything fair or not reflects a majority opinion- should the populous (again the majority) disapprove of the laws as written - then the populous has the ability to remove and replace - but our laws will always be passed by a majority - many studies and polls have been conducted in reference to different beliefs such as Trans Males allowed to play women’s sports or same sex marriage or any other senario that isn’t considered a normal behavior - at this point it is up to the elected officials and the courts to adjudicate what is fair to minority groups

There is exactly nothing in your Bible that is evidence that any god or Jesus ever existed. The first version was written 400 years after the claimed dates of the existence of Jesus. You cannot verify any statement relevant to the existence of a god of any kind. Lots of other crap could have been added when it was rewritten possibly more than 100 times. Claiming the sun comes up every day does not prove any gods exist. And we really do not care what you believe as long as you cease forcing the rest of us to live by your beliefs. Such as the halting of abortions and your continuing war against gays, trans people, other religions, same sex marriages, and the rest of your attacks on the personal freedoms of people who do not believe your crap. And the rest of your crap is just as worthless as your opinion.

I was awakened to the truth about religions when I was about 35 years old and Chairman of the School Board and member of the Church Board of one of the largest Lutheran churches in Michigan. In these positions, I found out the true nature of religions. The school shoved religion onto brainwashed children and failed to teach them much of known science when it conflicted with their religious teachings. And the only interest the church board ever had was raising money, especially enough to keep the diocese running. Yep. To hell with the poor. Yes, I have read the bible cover to cover more than once, and when I took a hard look at what it actually says, it supported my growing belief that religions were nothing but scams.

And over the last few years, it has become obvious that religions have become hate groups. I watched them in Kansas City in the 1990’s holding up signs that said "Kill the Gays." And signs held up by the same people that said “Join the Baptist Church….” Now, religions are into pushing for book banning, abuse of LGBTQ people, causing the deaths of more pregnant women because of their protracted fight to ban abortions nationwide, denial of basic human rights for gays, trans people, atheists, and same sex marriages. Last I heard, failure to be able to obtain an abortion is responsible for a 6 percent increase in deaths of pregnant women in states where abortion has been banned. And religious wars continue in Nigeria where Christians are killing Moslems and vice-versa. And the fact is that the Christian religion has been murdering or supporting the murder of over 12 million people over the last 2,000 years. Not just the crusades either. Christians used the charge of “blasphemy” to have their personal enemies killed, including burning at a stake. Then the Spanish Inquisition and the Salem witch trials. Then on to Africa and South America where they murdered native people who refused to accept Jesus Christ as their lord and savior. And Martin Luther, a Christian who founded the Lutheran Church, encouraged Hitler to murder 6 million Jews. Nice guy. Really followed the supposed love they neighbor requirement of his bible.

In any case, certain members of this forum have become downright hateful, vicious, and profane in their comments to me because I have challenged their beliefs in Christianity. So, I decided to state my opinions and conclusions as an article so the haters can have one spot to curse me and will not have to go looking all over. Here goes.

There is exactly not one verifiable piece of evidence that anything in the Bible is true. Not one. There is exactly not one single piece of valid evidence that any gods have ever existed. Not just the Christian god. This includes any of the other 2,000+ gods invented by 4,000 religions of mankind throughout history. If we get rid of Christianity, undoubtedly, some other sect will pop up. There is exactly no provable reason to believe that any religion is anything but a scam created for the purpose of controlling others and taking their wealth. That is exactly what religions do. Some will actually help the poor now and then in an effort to demonstrate their belief in their book, but the end result is always recruit more members for their bankrolls. The real reason churches act benevolent is to attract more members to join the flock for fleecing. And they make a major effort to conduct both Sunday schools and secular schools for one purpose. That purpose is the brainwashing of children into believers for the rest of their lives in order to maintain and grow the flock over time for the purposes of controlling them and taking their money.

Christianity uses the carrot and stick approach to controlling others and fleecing them. The carrot is the false promise of heaven and the stick is the phony threat of hell. Interestingly enough, in order to keep that control going for as long as possible and covering virtually everyone in the church, you can sin all you want, and as long as you repent and believe in Jesus Christ before you die, you get to go to heaven anyway. Handy that little “get out of jail free” card, right? After all, all they really want is your money, and if they throw people out for not doing what they say, they would lose too much money. Longest running scam around.

Anyway, the good news is that year by year, more and more people are figuring out that religions are a scam. A study made a few years ago found that about 40 percent of Americans claimed they are not religious. Studies also found that the more educated and the more intelligent Americans are the ones who figured out that Christianity is a scam. Yes, a well backed, well deigned scam, but a scam, period. And yes, Christianity has seriously become a hate group. Comments on my comments elsewhere prove that. I have been vilified, cursed, called every name they can think of, and explicitly told that they hate gays, same sex marriage, trans people, and others not following their decrees. Yes, they propose eliminating the freedoms others have while they continue oppressing anyone they disagree with and are continuing to make major efforts to prohibit abortion nationwide. Not to mention the recent growth of Christian Nationalists, a strong reminder of Hitler’s minions. Then the religious nuts in Alabama went off the rails to declare Invitro fertilized frozen cells at fertilization clinics as babies and established legal penalties for the loss of a single cell. So, the clinics are shutting down due to the threat from this absurd law. Just more stupidity that demonstrates the validity of the claim that Christianity is all about control of others. Next, they will have adults and kids jailed for masturbation. And seriously, my claim of their fleecing of their flocks is further supported by the meme below about Joel Osteen, a TV preacher in Houston, Texas.

There is exactly nothing in your Bible that is evidence that any god or Jesus ever existed. The first version was written 400 years after the claimed dates of the existence of Jesus. You cannot verify any statement relevant to the existence of a god of any kind. Lots of other crap could have been added when it was rewritten possibly more than 100 times. Claiming the sun comes up every day does not prove any gods exist. And we really do not care what you believe as long as you cease forcing the rest of us to live by your beliefs. Such as the halting of abortions and your continuing war against gays, trans people, other religions, same sex marriages, and the rest of your attacks on the personal freedoms of people who do not believe your crap. And the rest of your crap is just as worthless as your opinion.

There is exactly nothing in your Bible that is evidence that any god or Jesus ever existed. The first version was written 400 years after the claimed dates of the existence of Jesus. You cannot verify any statement relevant to the existence of a god of any kind. Lots of other crap could have been added when it was rewritten possibly more than 100 times. Claiming the sun comes up every day does not prove any gods exist. And we really do not care what you believe as long as you cease forcing the rest of us to live by your beliefs. Such as the halting of abortions and your continuing war against gays, trans people, other religions, same sex marriages, and the rest of your attacks on the personal freedoms of people who do not believe your crap. And the rest of your crap is just as worthless as your opinion.

I agree with that - but the Bible does say to go into all regions of the world and present the Word of God - it is then up to each individual to choose their own path - no one has the right to force religion on anyone else anymore than Transgender, Homosexual behavior on anyone either - adults can make their own call but to present these concepts to vulnerable children in K- 8 is creating the premise this behavior is normal - Defining normal for a child is not without the attempted reality of creating additional like thinking adults - these being young children that still believe in the tooth fairy, the Easter Bunny and Santa

Good or bad - right or wrong laws are reflective of the elected officials that have been elected to the positions they hold - these individuals were elected by their constituents- everything fair or not reflects a majority opinion- should the populous (again the majority) disapprove of the laws as written - then the populous has the ability to remove and replace - but our laws will always be passed by a majority - many studies and polls have been conducted in reference to different beliefs such as Trans Males allowed to play women’s sports or same sex marriage or any other senario that isn’t considered a normal behavior - at this point it is up to the elected officials and the courts to adjudicate what is fair to minority groups

Regarding economics, corporations bribed Representatives and Senators (major donations to re-election campaigns) to vote for laws they knew would hold down wages. And this information was not provided to the voters. In fact, it was hidden by touting the far better prices available by importing goods tax free from cheap labor countries if the goods were manufactured in facilities built by and owned by US corporations. Sold as a great deal for cost reductions. They failed to mention that thousands of US factories would close and millions would lose their job. Then the offer of high paid, high tech jobs to up to 140,000 foreigners a year simply by claiming there were not enough Americans qualified for the job. Like trump attempting to hire 60 Philippinos for maintenance, yard work, and cooks for Mar-a-Lago. This law made sure there were numerous applicants for every high tech job so they did not have to offer higher wages. And the constant attacks on unions to convince voters they were all crooked, so they could pass the "Right to Work" laws that were a major blow to unions that previously forced wages higher and literally built the greatest economy in the world. And let's not forget the "Citizens United" decision of the SCOTUS that opened the door to essentially unlimited contributions to congressmen to increase the bribery. And I maintain that this information was kept from voters to the extent possible and was whitewashed by wealthy congressmen. Yes, the voters allowed this to happen, but the news was carefully orchestrated to keep the programs largely unknown. And their plans worked.