spurgeonryan said:
Not only do many religious oranization teach many facts that have proven to be false or theories that greatly hold back society, but there are many other problems organized religion brings up too.
1. Taxes - how much do governments lose to religion?
2. Cults should not be allowed to get as bad as some do.
3. Religious extremist - causing wars, terrorism, hate crimes, etc
4. Intolerance - how many more humans needs to suffer due to religious "morals"?
In this day and age I just do not think there is room for religion anymore. As a hobby it is fine, but there are so many things wrong with religion that it should not be allowed the power it has over society anymore.
Agree?
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This logic is warped for the following reason. It assumes religion is the problem and oversimplifies it into a childish concept akin to the boogieman and then use the assumptions made from that simplification to support the assumption.
I've been watching Ancient Aliens and its really similar to the way they argue that everything because Aliens.
Here are some major problems with this argument that are very hypocritical.
1. You can't make religion illegal and tax it at the same time. Taxing it addresses the actual problem of corruption, but that isn't limited to religions. Especially when the religious people with money that you are targetting will simply move it somewhere else.
2. Cult's are not necessarially religious, see Manson family.
3. Because extremism is limited to religions only.
4. You want to take religious intolerance of extremists and institutionalize intolerance of the very idea of people having the freedom to believe in whatever they want. The government that is supposed to protect people and what they want, now actively being intolerant, yeah that's a great idea. Why are anti-religious Morals better than any other kind of Morals, especially when their Morals about hating something simply because its different/you don't agree it with it. Sounds a lot like racism, sexism, homosexuality, etc all rolled up into one little hateful package.
Its not very hard to parrot the ideologies of other people who know what they're talking about without understanding it themselves. That being said, it kind of funny that you are simply replacing religion with its purely dangerous component, ideology. And I'd forgive that mistake, if it wasn't the second time you posted this thread.