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Originally Posted by Cheese
How about we allow the earth a good century of no religious involvement to see what would really happen? Every single religious group on earth would fight to the death to stop that from happening. They would die a slow and painful death.
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Originally Posted by Snakeye
This is human nature. While you take a great deal of joy in painting religion as evil, you fail to realize that if there is no god, then that evil is coming from man himself. Your arguments in this thread are contradictory. I am not sure how you can argue that many religious people can do so many bad things while arguing that man is inherently good. If God is not making him bad, then man himself is.
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I still want to see Cheese answer this one. It's an interesting point and deserves an answer, I think. If an atheist believes there is no God, then religion came from man. And all the evil that's come from religion has come from man. So how will ridding the world of religion help anything? It's only a product of man's evil, if religion isn't there something else will take it's place.