Church forced girl, 15, to apologize for pregnancy by rape

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The Fury said:

While I do agree that religion is pointless in terms of morality in the sense of people, I don't agree that it defeats the purpose of religion to make a person better. An individual can find the greatest of morals and choices based on those from religion. Religion is what has established our modern morals as we perceive them but it differs based on the person's views on what they are hearing or reading from teachings. An individual makes up their own mind in the end and it's the individual were religion counts.

Of course in this case, all of the entire congregation were have a distinct lack of morals based on the 'teachings' of the minister. Although we don't know the full picture, nothing is being reported about if any of the congregation stood up for this girl or raise their voice in objection as , in my view, a morally better person would.

I think that people shape their religious beliefs to better suit their needs and desires. If a person is mean and wicked, they'll create a repressive and cruel religion, if a person is nice, they'll create a feel-good religion. I don't think that the religion influences the person much, but rather the individual shapes the religion to be similar to what he feels is "right" (not to mention that he can use the religion he creates as justification for his actions - for example a person acting cruel, but saying that he's acting "the way God demands").