The Rant Institute

 religion reduces the infinite numbers of ways a complex human brain can define human nature in a highly complex environment, to a single divine perspective, as the only one pleasing to a "God." that's like getting angry at a computer that you built to literally do anything and everything, including becoming whatever it wants, for refusing to remain a dish-washing machine, because washing dishes is a sacred tradition from God.

Religion is the idea that a person is guilty of a crime they didn’t commit against a victim that does not exist in any material way whatsoever, but who’s murder we are all as guilty of as all those who cried “crucify him.” And thank God they did, so the rest of humanity could all be forgiven for being responsible for his murder.

We are all hoping someone will save us from ourselves

We all need someone who makes us feel less ugly inside

If all you ever did was watch porn movies you’d think people never think of anything but sex. And if you ever only watched videos of that busy intersection in Japan, you’d think no one ever thinks about sex. And the only thing you’d know for sure is that somebody’s lying.

In a world going to hell because everyone’s trying to get somewhere,  Heaven is learning to be right where you are.

Capitalism is an economic religion started by the Abraham of economics, Adam Smith, that enthrones the money changers as Messiahs, in the free market of turning people into slaves.

Sometimes I think I know exactly what I’m doing, but most of the time I’m convinced I haven’t got a clue.

Looked at in the right light, some of the scariest corners of your soul are the most beautiful places you have ever seen. And if you’re too afraid to go to such places, you’ll never be able to be in those places with someone else  - who sees all the beauty you’ve been missing.

Fear is always the road to hell, paved with golden intentions, which transforms every wrong into a right, because they're all committed for the love of a cause. Our religions give us meaning and purpose, in other words, but only the kind that lead us to want to kill each other and die for, rather than the kind that would lead us to see how our differences make up for our limitations, rather than blaming our limitations on our differences, which religions encourage us all to do, by telling us that by doing so we are uniting with the "body of Christ," which the Christian thinks of as a spiritual-superman of the sort Germany was seeking to create biologically during World War II, which they think in turn gives them the right to treat anyone who doesn't agree with them like the body of Christ.  Religion's do this by encouraging intolerance for a difference of opinion on things, from the opinion on things declared to them by their God, because they choose to ...

If you believe in God, there's probably a good chance you also believe that God performs miracles every now and then. God does this, of course, to not only remind the world that He hasn't forgotten us, but also to advertise His mercy and benevolence to believers and nonbelievers alike - at least that is, until the dreaded "judgement day." Perhaps the greatest miracle today, however, is the fact that there are still people in the world who believe that "miracles" come from a God.  For many "believers," on the other hand, it's as much of a miracle to them that people don't believe in their particular brand of "God" as it is for them to discover that people don't believe such a "God" performs miracles at all; and especially not for all those of us he has cast into the torture chamber we call earth, where we all await the grim reaper, and with the apparent intent of using religion to turn us all into ...