Pemalite said:
Japan. Pretty sure China also ranks highly as well.
Locknuts said:
Christianity has done more good in the world that Islam or Judaism. |
Christianity is also responsible for the deaths of millions, the prevention of equal rights and other immoral actions.
An example: Inquisition, murdering pagans, sentencing of death for homosexuality.
However... To say that Christianity has done more good than Judaism is a little duplicitous...
Judaism, Christianity and Islam are all based on the same Abrahamic, Middle-Eastern ethos.
In-fact, Judaism was the first of the three religions and is built around the Torah, the Jewish Bible.
Christianity adopted the Torah and relegated that to the Old Testament whilst "tacking on" the New Testament and applying it's own spin, so it could be argued that without Judaism and the Torah you wouldn't have Christianity and the Bible anyway.
Islam takes the Torah/Bibles Old Testament and essentially gives it it's own spin on the events.
There is a reason why all three religions preach death to Homosexuals, against the consumption of pork, women serving men, owning slaves is okay and why all three are thus against same-sex marriage.
Locknuts said:
Although Jews have achieved a disproportionate number of things like Nobel Prizes, I think this has more to do with their intellect than their culture. Before the reformation and subsequent separation of church and state, the Christian church was responsible for some horrific atrocities. But we learned the hard way and a separation became a fundamental part of our culture. I am currently educating myself on Judaism so I can't really say much on the subject. |
Agreed. I didn't wish to get into a theistic discussion here (even a light one) but it happened anyway. Haha
Locknuts said:
Islam does not allow for a separation of Church and state. As Hitchens said 'Not all religions are equally bad at the same time'. |
I dislike all religions equally, I prefer science, evidence, logic and sound reasoning.
Thus no religion is better or worst than each other... I mean after several thousand years, 4000+ religions/denominations and thousands of "gods" none have even been able to provide evidence to justify their claim of a supernatural deity. Ever.
That is in stark contrast to homosexuals who do exist in the real world and thus should come first before any religion.
I am just glad that same-sex marriage is being legalized one country after another... And that religion is taking a backseat to that.
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1) Japan and China thrived once they adopted free market capitalism. A very western idea.
2) The three Abrahamic religions all diverge, and that divergence is where Christianity (the new testament) has given us our most valuable lessons.
3) Sound reasoning, to me, shows that Christian values (modified through modernity) have lead to the highest standards of living and longest life expectancies in human history. I'm not sure how important marriage being exclusively between a man and a woman is to western civilisation, or even how to measure its importance. This uncertainty was another factor in me voting no. Essentially though, I reject the entire legal framework and hate giving the government more power to decide who can do what with whom. It shouldn't even be up to them.
