Berkeley Daily Planet recently posted what a good faith effort to separate the “bad” religious believers from the “good” religious believers.

The letter is a waste of time and effort. As long as people are willing to replant reason for the lack of it, we will continue to have prejudiced people.

Let’s look at the points…

“One: True religions value all human life.” No true religions value the believer over others - it’s an extremely effective meme that propigates itself.

“Two: True religions honor genuine holiness.” True religions create the fictious concept of holy and (see #1 above) their holiness is more holy than your holiness.

“Three: True religions honor God, Goddess…” My religion doesn’t recognize your heathen Goddess so DIE HERETIC!!

You get the point. The rest is mumbo-jumbo pablum for stupid people.

There’s plenty of ways that faith is good: faith in one’s self to deal with life’s challenges is important. Faith in our families to support us during trying times is necessary… faith that humans will overcome adversity in a variety of faces.

But to go on and make believe in gods is what causes Earth-centric solar systems and descending from non-belly buttoned fig-leaf wearing homo sapiens.

All the author is doing is placing a value judgement on religions, and in the midst of all these jerks, who’s going to notice ONE MORE VALUE JUDGEMENT on an system of societal control that masquerades as a series of VALUE JUDGEMENTS.