How can we crush religion?

Question

I hope I live to see the day when, as in the early days of our country, we won't have any public schools. The churches will have taken them over again and Christians will be running them. What a happy day that will be!
-- Rev. Jerry Falwell

Secular schools can never be tolerated because such a school has no religious instruction and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from faith.... We need believing people.
-- Adolf Hitler, April 26, 1933

I had a student ask me, "Could the savior you believe in save Osama bin Laden?" Of course. We know the blood of Jesus Christ can save him, and then he must be executed.
-- Rev. Jerry Falwell

Answer 1

People are generally dull. The average IQ is 100. That's only 20 points above a clinical moron. Studies have shown that most of the fire breathing, religious zealots have average or below average IQs. As long as this planet is covered with borderline morons we're screwed.

I guess the answer is: we can't crush the fundamentalist dimwits unless someone comes up with a way to raise the average IQ to say, 120 or 130.

-This mental sloth above me is a perfect example. When he was just a kid, someone tried to teach him basic mathmatics and failed miserably. Now he's using colons where equal signs should be and words where numbers should be.

As for his take on American history, maybe he was out sick that day.

I'd hate to see this joker try to negotiate his way accross a busy street.

Answer 2

Interestingly the Bible tells of a time where the Kings of the earth or governments (through God)will destroy the empire of false religion( includes almost all religions) known as Babylon the Great. This great harlot is guilty of it's spiritistic practices, involvement in politics,profiting from it's members or controlling or being affiliated with many businesses so it can live in "shameless luxury". It's also bloodguilty of killing the true followers/witnesses of Jesus, misleading all the nations consequently making itself a place of demons.
Identification of Harlot---Rev 17:1-6,9-15;18:1-3,23
Destruction of Harlot----- Rev 17:16,17

Answer 3

You will never crush religious beliefs ever they are part of the human design. We can't help it! Its always been there.

I would advise crushing organised religion and its hierarchy's. There is also a need to educate people from following the delusions of others and making them leaders.

In that way we may approach a philosophy of life - a religion without superstition and people thinking they are some kind of elect.

A pure philosophy of belief could be beneficial to help the development of society, raising it above the instinctive nature of man. Its a wing and a prayer I must be honest our built in instincts are there to destroy us.

Answer 4

Do you mean crush, like crush under foot? Well, I recommend that we respect the Constitution of our secular democracy and let them talk and put their own feet in their mouths.
Second recommendation: tell jokes.
There was a kid with a box of kittens on the steps of his house when a Rev. Jerry Fallwell walked by. The Reverend saw the kid looking in the box and got a glimpse of the kittens and asked, "What do you have there son?" The kid, knowing who Fallwell was from seeing him walk by every day and hearing his passing conversations, said, "I have a box of Christian kittens." As he walked away Jerry said, "That's just wonderful."
A couple of weeks later Fallwell sees the kid again and asks, "How are those Christian kittens doing?" The kid says, "Oh, they are not Christians any more." Fallwell asks, "How is that possible?' The kid answers, "Their eyes are open and now they are atheists."

Answer 5

sure. Communism is a quasi-non secular ideology, and so it often tries to suppress all competing ideologies. this is corresponding to a theocracy that bans all competing religions and viewpoints. Suppression in communist states has ranged from outright slaughter to petty bureaucratic regulations, only like in theocracies. although, diverse Soviet leaders took very diverse rules, and a few attempted to rehabilitate the Orthodox Church as a patriotic enterprise, e.g. Stalin, after he had formerly suppressed it. it is analogous to fashionable China which permits registered non secular businesses yet stamps on unregistered ones, because it extremely is in basic terms a huge Brother mentality.

Answer 6

Rev. Jerry Falwell is not Jesus Christ.
Don't base your entire concept of the Christian faith on the statement of a man, and compare it to another mans.

War is wrong, anybody could start a war from any religious background and say its "Holy". That doesn't mean that it is.
We don't need to crush religion, we need to crush intolerance.
We need to crush hate and the judgement humans have for each other.

Answer 7

Who wants to crush religion? It is an act of believing in other peoples beliefs and not completely your own beliefs. Mankind has always played follow the leader, so why change now? There are very few people with an open mind of seeing all truth in comparison to seeing limited truth.

Answer 8

Can't. It's like trying to extract the core nucleus in the DNA chain. We would die. Just don't think that all religious people are that fanatical. There's good ones out there. You know, the quiet ones that don't go around blowing their own or Jesus' horn. They just do.

Every single religious organization I've been affiliated with has had beautiful wonderful people in it. People like you and me. Very lovable people, actually, humble and kind, who wouldn't hurt a fly, and without a bone of aggression within them. Very hard-working and grateful people. I have been greatly honoured to have had them in my life.

Answer 9

Jerry Fartwell is a nut, just like Pat Roidbertson and all the other deluded televanglists.

Answer 10

I am an Agnostic. However, I believe in complete freedom of Religion. This means that every individual in this country must be allowed to believe whatever he/she wants.

Of course, people with ideas like Falwell's do not believe in freedom of religion; instead, they want everyone to be forced to believe in the religion of Falwell. If freedom of religion were really practiced, people like Falwell could not enforce their beliefs on anyone.

State-sanctioned group praying in schools would also be illegal, because the state would not be allowed to force anyone to pray for religions other than their own. However, individuals could pray for their own gods any time they wanted.

This is where the Neo-Cons like Falwell get it wrong. Praying in school by individuals is NOT illegal. State-sanctioned group praying for only one religion IS illegal.

Perhaps the anti-tax Neo-Cons should look at it this way: do you want to pay taxes to support state-sanctioned group praying in school for Jewish prayers only? No? Then why should the rest of us have to pay taxes to support group praying for YOUR religion? If you don't have to pay for it, than neither do we. That is religious freedom.

So, "crushing" religion is not the issue, because "religion" is not the problem. The problem is the agenda of power-mongers like Falwell, who want to establish a state religion and force non-believers to comply with its rules and pay taxes to support group praying in school.

"Crush power mongers" better addresses the problem.