(March 25, 2017 at 10:55 am)Isis Wrote:(March 24, 2017 at 2:33 pm)TheAtheologian Wrote: If religion is used to justify violence, then it can be deadly.
I suppose you are correct in a way, but you could argue that it is the person committing the violent or terrorist act that is deadly not religious ideas themselves, no?
Here's the thing though. Even if religions don't have an "us and them, kill the not-we" dimension, the fact that they can be twisted to that end makes them, on at least that level, antithetical to a healthy society.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
