| JWeinCom said:
When organizations have specific doctines that instruct people to be shitty (for example endorsing slavery, rape, genocide, encouraging the death penalty for blashphemy or idol worship, etc.) we should certainly believe that the organization is a contributing factor. When a particular type of organization is constantly associated with negative results, we should conclude that organization is likely detrimental. Whenever any organization makes the claim that certain people are inherently more worthy than others (the chosen people, saved, etc) then we should be very wary of it. |
Last comment because I really dont have time for this sort of thing right now.
You're trying to inject logic into faith. Like, why.
All organizations are associated with positive and negative things. Religion being constantly associated with negative things is a result of the media focusing on negative aspects because it makes for a better story. Actual religious people that arent extremists see the slavery and genocide thing as tthe past to move away from. If everyone were being held accountable for the past we'd be justified in hating all white people but we certainly arent, just racists. Similarly, nothing is particularly wrong with different beleifs outside extremism.
I find any implication that the world would be better or worse off without religion to be ridiculous because it would likely be largely the same. People would find another reason to abuse power and the world would keep chugging theough space.
