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Originally Posted by HotHotHeat
There is just as strong, if not a stronger argument that the bible is the single most destructive piece of literature to be published in the history of the world. It's caused countless wars and deaths, all in the name of something that no one has ever seen/heard from/experienced with the 5 senses.
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The bible is not the cause of any of this. Nor, by implied extended argument, is Christianity. Man was putting his neighbour to the sword in the name of his gods for thousands of years before Christianity.
Religion is, and always has been, about control. Religion is man telling other men what to think and how to act and allowing ignorance and fear of the unknown to keep people in line. Which leads us into your next paragraph...
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There is an undeniable link between our growing understanding of the world we live in and the downfall of religion. God was used to explain the unexplainable thousands of years ago. We've now very clearly moved beyond needing fairytales to understand how we came to be.
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Yup. The opposite of religion is knowledge.