Atheists on the rise in America

[lestatdark]

pizzahut451 said:

lestatdark said:

pizzahut451 said:

lestatdark said:

pizzahut451 said:

Rath said:

pizzahut451 said:

 

So its the religion's fault that some people are filled with hatered and use religion and God as an excuse to harm other people?? What religious book is teaching that??? Almost all religious books (christain, jewish) have the same message of peace and love, its just that some people ignore that and choose to look at the fundmentalists and nut jobs that use religion as an excuse and then by some miracle think that all religious people are like that. And im sorry for all those gay people that got killed but i know for sure that God desnt hate them and that religion didnt killed them, but people.

Have you read the old testament?!?

That God is all for smiting. Stoning is generally his preferred punishment. Adultery? Stone 'em. Disobedient children? Stone 'em. Homosexuality? Stone 'em.

 

This book is what is generally used to justify discrimination against homosexuality in all of the Abrahamic religions - including Christainity and Judaism.

Old Testament was before Jesus came to earth to set things straight...i dont need to say anything else. And those people who got killed under God's command deserved their faith (Soddom and Gommorah, for example).

So, did the hundreds of thousand of people murdered in Europe during the Inquisition days, deserve that fate as well? The Malleus Maleficarum word was held as true as the bible's word in those days. 

Every religion has it's pros and cons. Unfortunately, some of the cons of certain religions are way too inhumane to just ignore.

no, they didnt. Sodom and Gommorah did. If you cant find a diffrence between gettining killed becuase you're a woman who mixes plants to cure people and getting killed for sodomy, lust and slavery than i suggest you shouldnt become a judge in the court of law :P

No religious motive should ever be used to justify the slaying of anyone, that's ridiculous and pure fanaticism. And in the inquisition it was much more than just women who mixed plants who got murdered and innocently accused. You'd do well to read up on a non-church view of the inquisition.

For a supposed religion of peace and love, there has been far to many stains in the cloth of Christianity, both in the old testament and post-Jesus. 

 

if your takling about Soddom and Gommorah, then the world slaughter was never mentioned in their story. They were cities of sin and evil and thats why they got destoyed. And like i said, it was the corrupted CATHOLIC* church and their priests  who killed all the innocent people and lied the people saying that money will earn them the salvation from hell. THEY killed people,not bible, not Jesus, not God, but them. And just becuase they call themselfes chrristians doesnt make them real christians at all.

 

*Its good to know that catholic church was the only one who performed the inquisition on people, while orthodox christisan church and protestants didnt do anything like that. Does that tells you anything?

Of course it was people who did those acts, even in the past it was the same. Why? Because people are flawed and they're going to interpret whatever they want to interpret from anything. The same goes for the bible. It was written by men, compiled by me who left out parts that didn't serve their interests and interpreted by men who use that interpretation for their own interests as well. 

That's why i'm saying, no religious motive ever justify the killing, destruction or annihilation of people, civilizations and many other things that are done in the name of religion worlwide. It's not only catholic christians that are to blame for this, but they have been one of the most destructive religions throughout their history, that's for sure.