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If they didn't have religion, they would just use their excuse of dictatorship authority to do the same anyway.
Originally posted by wildtimes
reply to post by logical7
Its the people at fault, not any religion.
But who invented "religion"?
Religion is being made a scapegoat to be sacrificed on the altar of reasoning to vent out the anger about everything wrong thats going on.
re·li·gion
/riˈlijən/
Noun
The belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, esp. a personal God or gods.
Details of belief as taught or discussed.
Synonyms
faith - belief - creed - denomination
Originally posted by wildtimes
No, "God" did not give it to man. Man invented it to explain what they could not understand.
Originally posted by wildtimes
reply to post by logical7
Religion is being made a scapegoat to be sacrificed on the altar of reasoning to vent out the anger about everything wrong thats going on.
Okay,
so,
you deny that religion has had anything to do with "everything wrong that's going on"?
If so, HOW is it helping things to not go wrong?
Define "religion"? Really?
Religion is
re·li·gion
/riˈlijən/
Noun
The belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, esp. a personal God or gods.
Details of belief as taught or discussed.
Synonyms
faith - belief - creed - denomination
like i said religion is a dead thing. Yes if you ask what are the people in the religion doing then i agree that they should do their best to change things.
Originally posted by Deetermined
reply to post by jhill76
Do you care to explain how that works exactly?
how would they do this? What
would be your advice to religions in
HOW to change things?
I'm not sure what you mean by
religion being a "dead thing" - it rages
across the globe EVERY SINGLE DAY -
I don't recall if I've asked you before,
but, the Baha'i faith seems to me to be
the most peaceful religion (of the Abrahamic choices) going.
It was started by a Muslim.
Are you familiar with it?
i see it in the same category as Nation of Islam.
yes you asked me before and i missed to answer you. I do know it. But its a typical example of "anyone can start a religion"