happydolphin on 09 May 2013
People are inherently evil, but religion coming from man or being influenced by man can corrupt other people.
True revelation is a miracle.
| dsgrue3 said: Religion teaches you to believe in something without any evidence whatsoever. This has very profound implications. If you can simply take things on faith, you are an irrational person. Irrational thoughts can be used to do any number of dangerous things. It is this very reason that there are crimes of passion, fanboys arguing absurdities, suicide bombers, etc. Spirituality is thought to be controlled by the serotonin system. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14594742?dopt=Abstract Article about schizophrenia and its ties to religion: http://www.smw.ch/docs/pdf200x/2004/25/smw-10322.PDF |
You know nothing, dsgrue.
Relgion teaches you to have faith on something that gives you evidence, just not proof. What you describe is something else. That's called blind faith, and it's not what religion teaches, in general.
