actually its quite teh oppsite--people as a whole are more proon to fault with out something to believe in then when they do

not to mention most religions try to strees the good (love, faith, hope, peace) virtures, but you will always have those that take it to the extremes

Religion is neither a positive or negative force. For every positive example of the effects of religion there is a negative example. The same religion that preaches love thy neighbor says it is alright to genocide other people if they do not believe in the same god. Basically it is a large delusion that some people seem to need just to tolerate their miserable lives. Which unfortunately prevents many of them from rectifying their problems.

What cannot be argued is that mixing religion which is basically brain washing, and mental illness rarely has a positive outcome. Think about it someone who's grip on reality is tenuous at best being exposed to ideas about magical invisible beings watching them at all hours of the day, and another magical character that wants to burn them forever. Seriously thats like tossing napalm onto a lit match. They are already paranoid and terrified so its a good idea to encourage that.

theres some disturbing people in this world... well kinda annoys me when people take the bible for the literial truth (and i do go church on occassion so am not hating)...

... do the guy was calm when the police came, gotta wonder what was going thru that guys head after he did it

 It would. Religion tends to be a conservative thing. By "ridding" all of religion sience and ethics would make a huge jump foreward - we don´t need the bible for our civilization anymore. 

But that may not be the right thread to discuss. 

There are people who are crazy without religion and people who are crazy with it. I think it depends more on the person than wether they are religious or not.

I don't see how people can blame this on religion. The dude was mentally ill. So he cut of his hand. Who knows how it would have manifested itself without the scripture, but it's not like he would've been a sane productive member of society with no chemical imbalances because he didn't read the bible.

 I don´t think somebody is doubting that. I think this is more a general discussion going on here.

what peopel really need to do is step back and realize--God does not equal Religion--nor vice versa

Like I said,

"So by ridding religion, everything will be nice and peachy; happy sunshine and rainbows throughout: Crooked politicians will be straightened, armed forces will cease to exist, racism will become extinct, drug cartels will become bankrupt, just crime in general will hit a WORLDWIDE low?"

While I agree that there are a few "Bible-thumpers" out in the world, they don't consist the overall population of people who have a certain faith. I mentioned them earlier, but even homosexuals still stick to their particular belief.

Too group every person into one big category and labeling them the same is asinine. That's like me looking at weapons still being produced and being said that science only brings mayhem and destruction, and advances being made in science comes through the cost of animal cruelty; both being ethically wrong.

You see, there are two sides to every coin.

That's going to make it a lot harder to play most video games.

he should have just cut off a foot. What a dummy.