(January 2, 2016 at 5:36 pm)Pizza Wrote: Here some food for thought, if it was obvious there wouldn't be thousands of arguments for it.
Yep. Even with Buddhism. Allah nor Muhammad are unifying characters otherwise you would not have Sunnis and Shiites killing each other. Buddha is no more unifying to Buddhists, otherwise the Chinese and Japanese and Tibet Buddhists would always get along. Jesus also, is not a unifying character to Christians otherwise you would not have tea party Trump voters hating liberal Christians.
Religion itself in all its forms in all of human history, while setting up social pecking orders, are not great ways for our entire species to see that we are the same species.
The truth of reality while you cannot force religion out of existence without becoming a monster yourself, the truth is that for all the good people claim it does, it is extremely divisive. It may be wiser for more humans to consider that our ability to be cruel or compassionate, is in our evolution, not the clubs we invent or the holy books we read.
