Due to constant misunderstanding with my name I feel the need to change my intro. I am hateful, hateful of religion. I hate what religion does to people and that people use it as an excuse to not think. I have spent many years of my life as an Atheist and have learned to handle my emotions, but no other word quite describes how I feel towards religion short of hate. I am outspoken, open minded, and will share my opinion. If you're looking for someone who will always agree with you, that won't be me.
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23rd July 2012

Question with 5 notes

Anonymous asked: What are your thoughts on Martin Luther?

In some ways I do have to admire him. He stood up against the Pope, who was arguably the most powerful person in the entire world at that point, and lived to talk about it. He condemned the obviously idiotic and phoney practice of selling indulgence to be able to get away with sinning. It took a lot of bravery for him to do what he did and perhaps if he wasn’t so misguided with religion he could have been a great skeptic. He could also be credited with doing a great service in bringing the bible and therefor literacy to more common people. His life definitely had far reaching effects.

In the end though of course, he is wrong. He is still focusing within a very small world view, a very small framework that he is looking at. It is hard to imagine how his views would have changed if he had access to the great amount of information we have available to us today. He could have been perhaps even more influential. In some ways I do support what he did and I think many of his actions were positive. On the other hand of course though he was a anti-Semitic religious fanatic to the end, he just happened to be one that provided a bit more good than most.

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  1. kitudjamerre said: luther’s reformation contained the seeds of modern fundamentalism. his primary focus was restoring church doctrine to the scriptures. add that to his anti-intellectualism and the poisonous “doesn’t matter what you do so long as you accept jesus” line
  2. friendlyatheist said: Some have argued that Luther is the intellectual father of the Holocaust by looking at what he wrote. They are likely right…
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