Everyone here is FREE to post whatever they want. There are people here much smarter than I in matters of finance, for example. I don't dare cross their path. But, I, too, know a thing or two. And, one of them is that RELIGION MUST END - ALL RELIGIONS! That is, if you TRULY want World Peace. There is no other way.
What? Some people have gotten their feelings hurt? By me? A secular humanist? Posting online, no less? Really? They're more upset at me than say, The (ahem) Holy Catholic Church for their lies and murder through the years? ISIS? People plotting to destroy America? Capitalists worldwide who could care less about world pollution or disease? Maybe those people you are so concerned about can voice their opinions to me, personally.
Unlike you, I know humanities fate is DOOMED unless people worldwide realize we are all in this together. No Deity is coming to our rescue. It is, like Carl Sagan said paraphrasing Thomas Jefferson that it isn't enough to have some rights. But, that the populace MUST be educated.
A little over 200 years ago, some intellectuals listened to the people of the future. And, they did what was necessary in THEIR time to assure the people of today our present. Now, it's our turn to, yet again, listen to people of the future and hear their needs. To ignore them will amount to a catastrophe of epic proportions that those people may never overcome. It could, IMO, be the end of humanity as we know it. Melodramatic? I don't think so. Just look at the 20th Century.
Stop being part of the problem, LionJim, and join me. You won't be the first or the last person to leave your religion where it belongs - in the past. I can think of nothing more valuable to do for future generations.