"Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important."

[Puppyroach]

TH3-D0S3R said:

Puppyroach said:

I think it is as false to claim religion is evil as it is to claim it is good. It is text written in a book and it is humans, not the religion in itself, that causes harm or wellbeing to other people.

I strongly agree with this. As a Christian, I get sick of being lumped into terrible sects of it while I believe in something completely different to what someone else believes in. I take no responsibility in the Crusades for two reasons, I'm not Catholic, and looking at events leading up to it, you cannot put the entire blame on Christians. The actions against innocent civilians was terrible, but you cannot simply lump all Christians together saying we are all pro-Crusades. It falls on the people at the end of the day.

Agreed, and it is important when discussion both religion, atheism or even ideologies that we do not define them by what people have done in their name, but by the content of them and also acknowledge that people can use texts as a basis for promoting equal treatment of people aswell as promoting harm and discrimination. I do think, however, that it is important to always be critical in the analysis of texts. I am atheist but there are a lot of people out there that call themselves anti-theists and it is important to identify the differences.