(October 14, 2013 at 1:21 pm)Dunno Wrote: However you can't say that religion is bad, because the motive of religion is to be the peacekeeper, to do good, it is, in effect, humanity's earliest ethics, an ethics that, in all forms of religion, has a supernatural punishment if you don't follow their ethics.
On this I call bullshit. I do not think that religion is the peacekeeper of anything. It's a tool for controlling people, and those in power are more concerned about more power, good PR and gold. It's a tool to keep (especially the poor) masses checked, because if people genuinely believe that someone's always there, watching and judging, they will behave according to the dogma they have been brainwashed with. If most religious leader would practice what they preach, I could get behind your statement. But no, we see adulterous, greedy, ignorant and some down right mean people, scaring, bullying and stealing from their followers.
When I was young, there was a god with infinite power protecting me. Is there anyone else who felt that way? And was sure about it? but the first time I fell in love, I was thrown down - or maybe I broke free - and I bade farewell to God and became human. Now I don't have God's protection, and I walk on the ground without wings, but I don't regret this hardship. I want to live as a person. -Arina Tanemura
