(April 18, 2016 at 5:33 am)robvalue Wrote: Yeah. He wants us to be confused, or this is the best he can do.
Yea, so that makes humans his lab rats, toys.
In real life, in the west, if a parent had three kids and allowed them to fight constantly to the point of severe injury or death and Child Protective Services found out, the kids would be taken away and the parent arrested. Yet even liberals of all these three religions cant see or don't want to see the harm religion causes.
Religion does not create empathy or peace, not in any universal neutral sense. It does locally, but still even then, has the division at best, that all non majorities are pets or house guests who won't be harmed as long as they know their place is behind that majority. But this is what all religions do worldwide, to greater or lesser degrees.
All religions point to the ideas of kindness and empathy, but really what humans are doing is using that as excuses to set up social pecking orders. No, it isn't that you can force religion out of existence, but it is way past time humans consider where our behaviors come from as being natural, and not some Marvel Comic battle between a super hero and super villain based on old books.
There is not one religion, not even those of Asia and the Orient, that does not have competing sub sects that have differences of the interpretations of the holy writings or how the umbrella label should progress forward.
We divide and compete, not because a god exists, or that their is a wise man with all the answers, we do that because that is what evolution in all it's forms does, compete for resources. The good thing about our species is, that when we want to, we can appeal to less tribalism and a more universal understanding that we are the same species.
But right now, currently globally the biggest trouble makers are the big three religions of Abraham, and yes while the east is still stuck far too much in a theocratic past by comparison based on the Hadiths and Quran, it still remains that all three religions claim the same character and all three claim to be daddy's favorite child. Problem is this doesnt stay at a simply debate, it gets to the point of Christians and Jews and Muslims all willing to end the lives of people they have never met and hide behind "self defense".
The worst part is because of the failure of all three, not as individuals in any, but as a climate, the rest of the world who are not members of any of those, are stuck as hostages on the only home our species has. Nobody is going anywhere, this is the only planet all 7 billion of us have. But unless more humans in all camps face the reality that their is no such thing as a "chosen people", the violence will fester.
