(January 9, 2016 at 12:15 am)God of Mr. Hanky Wrote:(January 8, 2016 at 10:06 pm)popsthebuilder Wrote: I read the first paragraph. Maybe you're confused or something but the ancient Roman Catholic Church is responsible for all other sects and even partially responsible for Islam. Regardless of numerous attempts at varied times and levels, the Roman Catholic Church still managed to skew and lead most astray from true direction and faith in God.
Faith in selfless Unity for Good.
No, Pops, you're confused, and that's being kind because for justice I should presume you are dodging the ball.
The Catholic church was original xtianity, no shit! Read on, it's about actual history and the nature of sectarian violence. Also, stop pretending only Catholics are responsible for extreme injustice, torture, and insanely senseless executions of the innocent!
There is no religious organization worldwide in human history that has not had it's divisions or transgressions to some degree. No, religion cannot be forced out of existence, but it is our species lack of understanding or focus on the fact it is divisive makes it a poisonous concept to bridging gaps and management of or differences better.
All religions have multiple sects within the same umbrella label. Hindus and Muslims fight, Muslims and Muslims fight, Buddhists are also pitted against each other. Catholics and Protestants, black liberal baptists vs white GOP baptists. Sunnis vs Shiites. And not even atheist is a unifying label. You have Ayn Rand right wing economic atheists, gun worshiping atheists, and Che supporting atheists, and people like me in the middle, western pro business/but anti abuse anti pay gap, don't want all guns banned, but what we have now sucks, liberal socially but not politically correct.
And all that says to me is that we would do better as a species if more people would simply put the individual first and non violence first. We are still the same species.
