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[AtheistCrusader]

71. Because those of us that live in the US live in a Christian dominated society and it applies

various interpretations of Christian ethics and morals to laws that apply to us.

I'm MALE and I've experienced religious influence on my ability to access family planning. I'm an edge case, and not even female, and *I've* experienced it. So let's just take a moment and consider the various ways in which a predominantly Christian culture shits on women at every turn, for accessing birth control, for wanting comprehensive sex ed, for accessing abortion, for having careers, for having more than one sexual partner, for enjoying sex at all, for frankly doing anything but getting married and staying home to raise the carpet goblins.

Lets take a moment to ponder religious opposition to death with dignity, and my access to end my life at my choosing if and when I am suffering beyond the support of palliative care. It happened to my dad. It happened to my uncle. It happened to BOTH my grandfathers. Alzheimer's and a couple other degenerative neurological diseases run in my family. Let's ponder a moment on the OVERWHELMINGLY and almost UNIVERSALLY Christian (mostly catholic) opposition to physician assisted suicide in the US.

I was going to make a comprehensive list, but fuck it, we're already well beyond the scope and bounds of how far RELIGION (specifically christianity) should intrude into my life by way of the laws of the United States of America, a Republic, with a Constitution that expressly forbids such intrusion.

Religion is a stupid, ancient, tribalistic mythos that deserves to be shaken off like our childhood toys, and there's a REASON that religiousity trends DOWN with Education (less than 7% of the members of the National Academy of Sciences is religious) and college degrees, trends down among liberals and progressives, and trends down among higher IQ's, however flawed measuring IQ might be.

It's stupid. It tells us nothing about ourselves, the universe or our place in it, and it's going away. Wave good-bye. It's a very large ship, passing in the night. Bon fucking voyage, and don't come back.