Religion is the devil's work

[AlfredoTurkey]

Normchacho said:

AlfredoTurkey said:

akhmenhawk said:

FunFan said:
Crazy people will be crazy regardless. Religion at worst is a scapegoat and if it didn't exist it wouldn't stop crazy people from being crazy. Crazy people will always find a reason to be crazy.

 

i dont think anyone is arguing against that. But we cannot deny, that many large groups of people could not have been influenced under evil pretenses had it not been for religion.

 

You could say the same thing about everything. Organized religion has it's flaws and it has it's positives just like almost everything else on this earth.

 

That's such a cop-out answer though. Religion is a tool. A tool for getting people to do what you want, and it's up to whoever holds that tool to decide whether it's used for peace, or used for war.

Now, if you look at religion like that than it's very easy to say that it's good and bad depending on how it's used. However, religion is powerful because it preys on people. It preys on the worst parts of who we are. Our fears, our greed, our egos...

"You have to live and act in a certain way, and if you do, you get to go to a paradise after you die! But if you don't act they way "god" says to, you suffer immeasurably, forever."

"Man was created in Gods image, and the Earth belongs to gods children"

On a more personal note, I don't  trust anything that discourages people from asking questions, or furiously, and often violently rallies against progress because shows one of it's teachings to be incorrect.

 

It's not a cop out. It's the truth. You focus on the negatives of anything and you will have nothing but negative things to say about it.