And hey, if you were raised a jew, your beliefs aren't your own either, you were indoctrinated with illusions about somethins as probable as a giang celestial invisible teapot controlling everything in the universe form childhood.

You're right, I was indoctrinated with beliefs I had no way of consciously countering through learning and self-discovery until I reached an age that I was able to. I'm now an agnostic and have been for about 11 years. My mother became an atheist several years ago. My father still believes in Judaism, but he seems to practice it more out of tradition than anything else.

We are shaped by society and those around us, yes. My statement was perhaps a bit too absolute, and since I firmly believe that nothing is absolute, I should have chosen a better one. What I really wanted to point out was that while I and many others experience monumental self-evolution throughout their lives, venomhed doesn't seem to. But hey, maybe he used to love jews and through some form of self-discovery himself he now hates them. I don't know. Oh, and for the record, I too think that religion in itself is a poison. By its very nature it is divisive. And in a world where the nature of human beings is to find as many ways to be divisive as possible, something that uses the supernatural to justify further divisiveness is not needed anymore. Another "weed," if you will. There's spiritualism, and then there's religion. The former is all we really need. I'm not even sure the latter has anything to do with the former anymore.

So what was my point again? Ah, right, venomhed's a douchebag.
This comment was edited on Mar 18, 22:42.