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Originally Posted by Jude
The fourth of July was renamed Eric Dammann Day and every year the good people of Hasbrouck Heights celebrate the moment Ben was beaten back onto God's grace.
Or maybe he was reprimanded and no longer works with youths. Or maybe he made up the whole story.
I don't know and neither do you but it doesn't matter. It's silly for some posters here to judge the entire Christian faith of innumerable amount of denominations and social upbringings based on a 60 second rant by Eric Dammann.
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Are we allowed to judge religious institutions as a whole based on thousands of years of violence against others, persecution of non-believers, backwards thinking and systematically holding back humanity?
Because the fact is that this guy is pretty much the emodiment of all of those things. And he's a tame example.
The fact that he can even remotely justify what he is saying by presenting it in a pro-religious context is a problem.
I hate the argument that people will find a way to kill each other with or without religion. So what? Many are using it as an excuse and are being led to believe that they are actually doing good in the name of whoever. I could just as easily argue that people will find a way to help each other with or without religion.
"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion." ~ Steven Weinberg