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Originally posted by Kriz_4
Just think of how many problems in the world would cease to be if no[/] religions existed.
Originally posted by jlc163
No religions existed:
Hmm...
Do you know that the only thing that keeps me from killing people for the fun of it is that I have an overwhelming belief that Godn's not going to like it?
Tell it to every one of the natives that specifically racist, athestic men killed, as trophies, to put in museums.
Tell it to the Native Americans who scalped English Settlers, not for the sake of their religion, but as part of a French Trade agreement.
Tell it to the educated Laotians who were killed by invading Vietnamese.
Tell it to the Russians killed by stalin who were NOT religious.
Tell it to the children aborted in China.
Good lord, most of the evil men that had ever lived would have found something other than religion to fuel their wars.
Originally posted by Kriz_4
Just think of how many problems in the world would cease to be if no[/] religions existed.
NEVER said that. Siad that it doesn't matter wheter or not there was a religion, because people kill with or without a religion or a moral code, or hell, any reason at all.
Originally posted by Kriz_4
Firstly, you really believe that before that particular set of rligous rules came along every one was running around like madmen? Absolute rot and you know it.
Originally posted by jlc163
No religions existed:
Hmm...
Do you know that the only thing that keeps me from killing people for the fun of it is that I have an overwhelming belief that Godn's not going to like it?
Then you are sick and should not be on the streets, you should not be in society.
Never said that. You said that. I said look at those who didn't NEED the religion to kill the natives. Natives are killed with or without God over your head...so it's rather invalid to invoke the world would be better without God card. Majority of the natives killed were through accidents. The premeditated ones that you could prove whether or not they linked ot religous matters, well, more were killed for religion..which is not suprising because at that time, most people beleived in a God....The fact that most of the proveable ones were of a religous nature is SUPPORTIVE EVIDENCE OF A MAJORITY BELIEVINE IN GOD....What does it support, well, it supports that most people who said that they were religous, wern't lying, lol...
Tell it to every one of the natives that specifically racist, athestic men killed, as trophies, to put in museums.
So you think that happend because they were all (are you sure they were) atheists? Haha.
I did not state in this thread that Natives were the first to do such things...and I won't. Why would I put horses here before white man brought them in the 1500s? Especially since this information is VERY useful in ANti-Evolution debates? How long was Edward Longshanks supposed to have kept Wallace's head up over the town? The indians who started scalping were really those who practiced coup (knocking the noggin with a stick) until the French set up the bounty.
Tell it to the Native Americans who scalped English Settlers, not for the sake of their religion, but as part of a French Trade agreement.
Actually it was the invaders that started the scalping, it was proof so they could collect bounties, the Indians responded by copying the ritual. I bet you think Indians were all riding around on horses before America was "discovered".
That's because, historically, almost EVERY single culture worshiped something. The religion was an excuse. Those cultures that rejected God still went to war. Those who believe in no God are still voilent. And those who are militant in outlook still assume a lot of stuff. No, seriously, take away a God, you still have carnage, and would have a lot of it, too.
Tell it to the educated Laotians who were killed by invading Vietnamese.
Tell it to the Russians killed by stalin who were NOT religious.
Tell it to the children aborted in China.
Good lord, most of the evil men that had ever lived would have found something other than religion to fuel their wars.
Yes wars have happend for many reasons, but historically religously rooted wars and conflict are the majority.
Originally posted by djohnsto77
So much for the tolerant religion of peace, huh?
Originally posted by DpS
Originally posted by djohnsto77
So much for the tolerant religion of peace, huh?
Its not the religion is the people who intrepreted it wrong, and taken it into extreme.