(June 15, 2016 at 7:14 pm)BlueGirl Wrote: I'm not saying that everything religious people are doing is okay. I'm not saying that we should respect extremism or allow our rights to be violated by the overly religious. I'm just trying to make the point that religion as a whole, as a concept, is not inherently a bad thing and that the idea of it is not something that should be supressed.
I disagree. I think all people should be treated with a certain amount of kindness and respect. I think all people should have the right to their own beliefs. I will not ever try to force anyone to believe something other than whatever they believe.
But religion as a whole has been harmful. Religion as a whole should be educated away. It leads to wars, murders, and other tragedies. It leads otherwise good people to do terrible things like beat their children or harass a rape victim for having an abortion.
