Friedrich Nietzsche: The Oppression Of Organized Religion

Organized religion is an impediment to civilized societies. It is not necessary in explaining the complexity in or the origin of the universe. It is not required to enforce positive morals or to explain the source of morality. It does, in fact, work against these efforts, contrary to its self imposed claims. It continually regresses general scientific understanding with forming grand assumptions, promoting ignorance and discouraging skepticism. It has implemented negative morals through supporting slavery, genocide, misogyny, genital mutilation, anti-vaccination movements, the oppression of homosexuals and abandonment of moral responsibility. Organized religion stands without foundation, defending itself through labeling false hope as a virtue and spewing groundless “scientific” claims. Organized religion offers horrors interpreted with optimism in an attempt to amend it’s own role in the destruction of society.

“Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?” (Friedrich Nietzsche) The fine tuning argument, the statement that changing the constants of the laws of physics just the slightest would result in a world which cannot form life, is a common defense of religion. Much like the creationist argument, it is filled with …show more content…
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