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Originally Posted by White Doors
Exactly. To USE religion as a scape goat to blame all of humanites evils on is juvenile and shows a shocking lack of judgement and knowledge of history in my opinion.
Many many more people have been killed because of race, creed and nationalism. If one is to rail against religion, it is disingenious not to also condemn these issues.
At the end of the day, it is humanity's failings that have caused these, not those SOLELY of religion. To believe that the evils in the world are ALL caused by religion, like our uninformed postrer above did, is such a farce.
Like I said, I'm not even religious, I just find it really strange that religion is seemingly the only thing it is ok to not be 'PC' about.
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ALL wars are started by Religion? The vast majority of wars have religious conotations and have at their root religious strife.
The fact that religions do good things is a moot point. People would do good WITHOUT religion as a base. Case in point, and this is a leap of faith...IF using your theory their was a group of people that were child molestors behind closed doors and everyone knew it, however by doing anything about it the world would lose millions or billions of dollars in aid.
How would you feel about that group? Would it be ok to let them be, simply because they did some good as well? Maybe it was part of the plan in the first place...a smoke screen per se? Is it a reach?
Using your theory it isnt.
A group of world religious leaders from the Buddhist, Protestant, Catholic and Orthodox Christian, Jewish, Muslim and many other faiths met in Geneva Switzerland during 1999-OCT. They issued a document, The Geneva Spiritual Appeal, asking political and religious leaders and organizations to ensure that religions are not used to justify violence in the future. Delegates believed that that then-current 56 conflicts have religious elements.
Religiously based intolerance
Based on this EVEN world religious leaders know the facts that you want us to ignore.
Yes there have been wars started by madmen....wars that are not based on religion...and in most of those cases the person, people, country or whatever it was was stopped and defeated. They werent given a second chance or a third chance or a 1000th chance to do it again.
So what exactly is your point?
By the way...Im of Ukranian decent and know a fair bit about Russian history...are you sure you want to get into the whole Stalin deal? I doubt it.