KratosLives said:
The worst crimes were committed by non religious people. Explain that. |
Committing an act in the name of god and committing an act as a person who doesn’t believe in god are not the same thing. Lots of people do terrible things that are not driven by their worldview, lots of religious people commit terrible acts that have nothing to do with their religion.
What we are talking about are acts directly driven by their religion. Strapping bombs to themselves and blowing up random people, piloting aeroplanes into buildings. Creating armies to storm the holy land and pillage, murder and rape said holy land and its residents. Jews and Muslims openly wishing to commit genocide against each other.
These kinds of actions are not only driven by religion but also enabled by their religion i.e. the suicide bombers believe with 100% certainty they are going to their paradise with 100 virgins waiting for them or whatever nonsense the clerics tell them. In an irreligious world it would be a lot harder to convince people to strap bombs to themselves, and a lot of people would be a lot less emboldened in their harder views.
Religion doesn’t make people bad, but it enables and emboldens people’s worst tendencies, and peoples worst tendencies are generally really pretty bad.
Last edited by SeaDaVie - on 26 June 2025
