What is your least favorite Religious behavior?

[The Kilted Heathen]

Human sacrifice

I once actually tried to make an argument for human sacrifice.

For me - in addition to other things presented - there would have to also be proselytization.

 

[Altfish]

Circumcision

It is barbaric

 

[Kemosloby]

sitting in churches

 

[lostwanderingsoul]

Repeating the same prayer over and over , many times in a row. Can't God hear you the first time?

 

[dianaiad]

What is your least favorite religious behavior?...meaning a behavior that has a Religious motive that you despise? I can't stand the decapitations, stoning of adulterers, and persecution of homosexuals.

The idea that they, alone among all the people on the planet, have the right to tell anybody else how to live, believe, practice their beliefs or teach their beliefs. This particular religious behavior (or rather, 'behavior regarding religion') is found in almost every group, even in atheists.

Nobody has the right to be free from the sight and sound of someone else's beliefs. I don't have the right to object to 'Darwin fish' on someone else's bumper, and I don't have the right to object to someone knocking on my door in order to teach me about the Baptists or Jehovah's Witnesses. I DO have the right to ignore the one and politely say 'no, thanks' to the other.

I don't have the right to insist that anybody else be invisible to me if they believe differently FROM me.

I DO have the right to object to be forcibly included in their religious celebrations/practices if I don't want to join in, but I don't have the right to keep them from having/practicing them with those who DO volunteer for the experience.

This 'religious practice' has been rampant among theists for millenia, of course, but nowdays?

Atheists (well, some, anyway) are JUST as judgmental and guilty of it. More so, actually, in today's society. Certainly anti-theists were considerably more effective and murderous than theists ever were, in sheer numbers killed. (shrug)

Ah, well. What do I know? I just think that....

We claim the privilege of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our own conscience, and allow all men the same privilege, let them worship how, where, or what they may.

is the 'eleventh article of faith' for the system I follow. i would add..."or not," between "worship' and "how." I have found very, very few people who think that's a good idea. The atheists keep singing 'Imagine" and everybody else wants to force others to their way of believing.

..........and the posts in this thread don't make me change my mind any.

 

[Aštra’el]

My least favorite "religious behavior" is when people act as if they are entitled to tolerance and respect from everybody, as if they are somehow naturally deserving of these things.

 

[Ubon]

Abusing children then covering it up, simply relocating the guilty party.

From the highest ranks to the lowest protecting the guilty and shunning the victims.

Failing to bring them to justice, and finding excuses not to compensate the victims.

Nothing is as abhorrent as the abust of children or covering it up.

 

[Milton Platt]

What is your least favorite religious behavior?...meaning a behavior that has a Religious motive that you despise? I can't stand the decapitations, stoning of adulterers, and persecution of homosexuals.

Hard to pick just one......
I guess, just off the top of my head, it might be the Catholic church's discouraging the use of condoms in African countries that are riddled with aids.

 

[MonkeyFire]

I'm a pacifist, I don't have a least favorite persay.

 

[Quagmire]

Christian Rock.

 

[Kemosloby]

Piling skulls in churches.

catholic skulls - Google Search:

 

[Father Heathen]

Presumptuous certainty, willful ignorance, and intellectual dishonesty. Practically all of the misdeeds done in the name of religion are rooted in these.

 

[Father Heathen]

Piling skulls in churches.

catholic skulls - Google Search:

Actually that's a rather fitting look for churches.

 

[Cephus]

Blind faith. Believing things because they feel good, not because they are demonstrably true. And without that, all religion goes away, which is a good thing.

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

Proselytization, intolerant narrow-mindedness, anthropocentrism and foolish rejection of scientific facts.

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

Piling skulls in churches.

catholic skulls - Google Search:

Actually, I find the ossuaries to be quite beautiful.