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happydolphin said:

People are inherently evil, but religion coming from man or being influenced by man can corrupt other people.

True revelation is a miracle.

dsgrue3 said:
Religion teaches you to believe in something without any evidence whatsoever. This has very profound implications. If you can simply take things on faith, you are an irrational person. Irrational thoughts can be used to do any number of dangerous things. It is this very reason that there are crimes of passion, fanboys arguing absurdities, suicide bombers, etc.

Spirituality is thought to be controlled by the serotonin system.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14594742?dopt=Abstract

Article about schizophrenia and its ties to religion:
http://www.smw.ch/docs/pdf200x/2004/25/smw-10322.PDF

 

You know nothing, dsgrue.

Relgion teaches you to have faith on something that gives you evidence, just not proof. What you describe is something else. That's called blind faith, and it's not what religion teaches, in general.

 

Lol, when someone doesn't like facts they generally do disagree. Unfortunately a fact is not diminished by your disagreement.

The majority of religious people would not even entertain the notion that their savior may not exist. It is such an impossibility to them (brainwash) that it might as well be fact. It isn't a fact, not even close. And there is no evidence for God, just a collection of non sequiturs religious apologetics attempt to use in an exercise of confirmation bias.