(November 13, 2010 at 6:21 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: I believe that organised religion is one of the biggest evils that the world has ever known.
Oh and I believe that because thats were the evidence leads.
That's an idiotic view. Not that you're an idiot.
You have to discount an awful lot of history to come to the conclusion that religion is not at least a bit evil.
It polarises societies, causing rifts were there should be none. Look at Ireland and the whole of the middle east.
It has always been thus, from the aztecs ripping out beating hearts to the spanish inquisition and the islamic subjucation of women. The worlds religions no matter what the intentions of the founders, have all ended up being corrupted to a lesser or greater extent.
In england we have had both catholic and protestant pogroms, each side trying to out do each the in the persecution stakes. (read about the tudor and stewart eras).
I had replied to this earlier but I think my t'internet was playing up and it did not appear.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
