My father has recently rediscovered my copy of "The God Delusion" by the esteemed Richard Dawkins. Now none of this is particualarly odd, nor is Richard Dawkins' excellent deconstruction of faith in which he tears the foundations of religion apart with reasoning and logic expressed in a clear concise manner.
It strikes me as extremely absurd that people can spend their entire lives believing the rubbish which is spewed from the propaganda mills of the religious, without so much as thinking about it or questioning the many gaps and fallacies which are so glaringly obvious in their holy texts and tradional rites. These gaps, or holes, are so consistent throughout religions, not only the christian brands or the islamic brands but all religions that religion itself comes to resemble a block of swiss cheese, it only takes one to notice that if they are buying by the cubic decimetre they are being gibbed out of their money due to all of the holes and air pockets within the cheese. Religion is full of holes, and not at all what it seems, although swiss cheese is beautiful and tastes fantastic, it is riddled with holes which in religions case represent lies, contentious points, miscopied articles, poor tying together of the stories and ammendments over the generations of authors or if you are a theologist: contributors.
Theology-
Now I am wandering on a dangerous tangent and to be honest I can't be fucked pulling this post back onto topic. Does theology not strike you as an entirely worthless study from a belief and a truth perspective. If it were studied solely to understand the psychology of the sheep mentality, mass delusion or belief neuropsychology then it would be understandable, if it were studied for the purposes of history and historical significance only on the value of it';s massive destructive impact on society and the course of many world events then again it would be worthwhile. However, I contend that the study of theology for the purposes of proving or disproving a divine prediciment or creator, or a religions validity in story is entirely and utterly pointless. For those wishing to prove there is a God, studying a book written by mortals is not going to help, for those wishing to disprove the same, basing your counter proof on the fallacy in the first place is hardly an ideal point to come from. People need to look at people who are theologians et cetera and ask, what the fuck is the point, because seriously in either case it is a complete waste of time the religioushites(tm) will never believe there book is not true, or will make excuses in either case and the theologists will never prove that God exists without some form of critical scientific approach.
The harm that theology can do was made extremely apparent to me when listening to the newly elected opposition leader of Australia on the topic of reducing carbon emmisions, "I am not a theological opponent to nuclear energy." Now that is a very vague wishy washy statement isn't it oh and on second thoughts, take a double-take WTF does that mean????
