RE: The Problem with Christians
April 18, 2016 at 12:14 am
(This post was last modified: April 18, 2016 at 12:20 am by robvalue.)
This has highlighted a problem with religion in general.
It seems many people get programmed to believe that they are inherently bad, and will act badly, unless they "follow God" or whatever. Statistically I would expect this to actually be false say 95%+ of the time. But belief becomes reality for the indoctrinated person, so they dare not "take the risk".
It's very sad. Another example of breaking your legs and selling you a crutch. You only have to look at countries with a significant atheist population to see this is nonsense fear-mongering propaganda.
Worse though is when certain things are labelled "bad" by the religion, even if they are actually totally harmless. Then it kind of becomes a vicious self-fulfilling circle, with non believers being seen as "bad", as well as being extremely divisive and encouraging binary thinking.
It seems many people get programmed to believe that they are inherently bad, and will act badly, unless they "follow God" or whatever. Statistically I would expect this to actually be false say 95%+ of the time. But belief becomes reality for the indoctrinated person, so they dare not "take the risk".
It's very sad. Another example of breaking your legs and selling you a crutch. You only have to look at countries with a significant atheist population to see this is nonsense fear-mongering propaganda.
Worse though is when certain things are labelled "bad" by the religion, even if they are actually totally harmless. Then it kind of becomes a vicious self-fulfilling circle, with non believers being seen as "bad", as well as being extremely divisive and encouraging binary thinking.
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