My last response to gavin's recent post...
Throughout history religion has been used as a tool to control armies
and assimilate colonies. It makes one really question if the leaders of
such religions truly believe in their own faith at all or simply use it
as their own power. I'm not stating that all religions have been used
as a tool.
In the past there have been holy crusades, witch hunts, etc.
In this modern day religions and cults still cause much war, mass murders, and suicides.
Some
people may believe that religion is beneficial for the mind. Perhaps
that is because it has given people the placebo affect of "mind over
matter." Great for them.
How many times has religion hindered our advancement in science and technology?
In
the past, great thinkers have been executed. Perhaps the church was
scared? It was so easy to rule over ignorant commoners, even more so if
they're scared.
To this day people still continue to preach and
shove their religion down other people's throats and casting away such
proven things such as evolution.
If there is such thing as a
true religion, I don't believe that any individuals should be given the
divine right to choose and preach about god or gods or even write a
book about it.
Thus, my reasoning for believing that much of religion is BS is completely reasonable.
In
the end, I really don't care about how many people have died or will
die because of their beliefs; nor do I care how many people have been
saved, or will be saved because of their beliefs. It's simply natural
selection, plus the environment benefits from having less people to
pollute the world up. There are much better things for me to invest my
life on.
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