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Originally Posted by Traditional_Ale
I don't recall personally bashing Christians in this thread. But I do consider all organized mainstream religions to be the greatest cancer of the human race. While it has some good points, the negatives far outweigh the positives. It is responsible for the vast majority of death, war, hate, fear mongering, bigotry, and oppression in this world today and throughout history. I will not have any part of it.
And I went Catholic School my whole life.
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What is responsible for the vast majority of death, war, hate, fear mongering, bigotry, and oppression in this world today and throughout history is humanity and human nature being violent, warlike, selfish, ignorant, superstitious, etc. It's another evolutionary remnant of barbarous times and short and cruel life for our ancestors. Religion is often used as a justification or rationale for these things but it is not the sole cause of these things. People kill people, religion does not kill people...but it can talk them into it or make them blind to empathy for the beliefs and practices and lifestyles of other people.
I have too many Christian, Morman, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, etc. family members and close friends in whom I see such happiness and joy that they take out of their religion that I cannot catagorically call it a cancer although the way many people live and practice religion and cause harm to others in it's name is deplorable and makes me as angry with it all as it does to you.