| Impulsivity said: In the same vein when is the last time you heard about an athiest flying planes into buildings, shooting doctors or starting a "crusade" in the Islamic world (the latest crusade being the one started by Bush, yes he called it just that, a friggin CRUSADE the worst possible word a christain could use to discribe invading an islamic country). The reason religion is so dangerous is that it has real world consequences for believers and non believers alike, when fanatical religion led men to crash planes into the WTC on 9/11 the religous man and the athiest man alike died in the name of fanatical religon. Don't pretend the atrocities of christianity are any less horrific then those of Islam, it wasn't the Islamic inquisition, the Islamic crusades, the Islamic holocaust ect. |
Not a fan of the religion causes war argument. We humans are despicable. And many use religion to justify their actions. But even if there was no religion there would still be murders, wars, ethnic cleansings. The problem isn't religion. The problem is people in general. Most religions preach racial tolerance yet racism persists to this day and just over a hundred years ago slavery was still a massive problem in most of the world's "developed/civilized" nations.
You could argue that humanity's crimes wouldn't be on the same scale without religion but it's impossible to say for sure.
