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reply posted on 31-12-2008 @ 03:17 AM by spellbound
reply to post by reiki


Hey, Reiki,

As I said wars are about POWER, PUTTING PEOPLE DOWN and SHEER GREED.

And religion equals all of those - and I agree, it is horrible what our kids learn via technology - what are we, completely stupid? I would, sadly, have to say, yes.


reply posted on 31-12-2008 @ 03:39 AM by reiki
Originally posted by spellbound
reply to post by reiki


Hey, Reiki,

As I said wars are about POWER, PUTTING PEOPLE DOWN and SHEER GREED.

And religion equals all of those - and I agree, it is horrible what our kids learn via technology - what are we, completely stupid? I would, sadly, have to say, yes.


Hi Spellbound,
We have to look at the way religion has been hijacked today, and then look at the way religion was meant to be. Although i'm not religious, there are some in this wolrd who have also educated themselves with religion, and know the way religion should be. I have expereinced 3 major religions in my life. Islam, Christianity & Buddhism, and in all, i found people who were self-empowered through it. Perhaps i was lucky, i dunno. I doubt it's to do with location, hehe. however, these people who are set free by religion certainly are not newsworthy. What is newsworthy is bad news, ergo, that crap that is named as religion.
If a person has never come across the decent, free people in religion, then it is natural for one to not be aware they exist. They do however, and i wouldn't tell lies about this, :-).
Still, every opinion is valid, and i totally repsect your's, :-) .

Take care
Wayne


reply posted on 4-1-2009 @ 09:55 AM by karl 12
reply to post by Alienmojo


Sorry thought you were refering to organised religion and not just attempting to follow the virtuous human attributes of benevolence,compassion and empathy.

I think some of the founding fathers of the US had it right about organised religion when they said:

“In every country and in every age the priest has been hostile to liberty; he is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own.”
Thomas Jefferson

“Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise....During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in laity; in both, superstition, bigotry, and persecution.”
James Maddison

"Ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption,all of which facilitate the execution of mischeivious projects"
James Maddison

“Twenty times in the course of my late reading, have I been upon the point of breaking out, ‘this would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it.’”
John Adams

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