Twisting facts to support a desired conclusion is just as frequenty enacted by Politicians, Pollsters, and Marketers. Thus, when asked do you believe in God and a person says "No but I still believe I am a good person", the interpreter will interpret this as the person believing in god. Big problem is that it will go on record as such, and purposefully misrepresents the person who flat out said they do not believe in god.
I do believe that Speed Cams are also immoral. A pollster like Frank Lutz will come along and purposefully misinterpret ANY statement I make to support the conclusion he wants to show. "I do not support Speed Cameras of any kind" will be interpreted by Frank Lutz with his twisting of facts and interpretation of my statement to go on record as "I fully support Speed Cameras of Every Kind".
Wanna know why I am an Atheist? Try going to a Catholic School when you are five years old having the same name as the Son of Satan.
Thats all it took for me to recognize that the "Love" that is purportedly demanded by practically every religion is nothing but an excuse to Hate. At the time, I wasnt catholic. I was five. And I was still able to recognize even at that age that Religion is validation for Hate hiding behind the guise of Love. As I grew older, I started to see deeper into this pattern of Hate from Religions. It has nothing to do with God. It has everything to do with providing many people (not singling anyone out here) an excuse to commit the most heinous and immoral acts one can imagine and use Frank Lutz fact twisting logic to turn those immoral actions into falsely validated and falsely moral conclusions. With less verbal diahhrea, religion is abused by many people to hide their own guilt from themselves and others of same / simliar faiths. Conclusion at the time was "although Jesus loves me, Im going to Hell because everyone else told me I am going to Hell because of my name, and it doesnt matter if I do good or not because I was unfortunate enough to have the same name as the Son of Satan." It doesnt matter if that is even where my name came from. It came from a Preist, but that still wasnt good enough to satisfy the intense desire of people to hate me. I didnt push religion away at first, it pushed me away. That lead me to start thinking if they hate me although not having a valid reason to hate me, what other things are they telling me that are also complete bullshit? I concluded they did not really expect me to submit to God, but to submit to their Church. They did not want me to learn, they wanted me to submit to someone else always having more intellectual authority over me than even I have over myself. This helped me to recognize the practice of Religion as a form of Control where men controlled other men, and I refused to submit to anyone ever since. To this day, my Name continues to be a black stain on every first impression I make, and people still wonder why I introduce myself as Bob to anyone I dont know or care to know. My final conclusions about religion is that I am better off completely avoiding every single one of them at all costs out of the knowledge that Religion will only teach me to hide my own immoral behavior from myself teaching me that the word Love only carries the definition of Hate. All of this has forced me to reject the stupidity of those that profess Hate as Love and forced me to decide for myself what is Right and Wrong. And I think I do a much better job of deciding my own morality than even dare to allow it to be influenced by God or Religions.
