(April 25, 2017 at 11:41 am)purplepurpose Wrote: Brian37, your overdramatizing a bit the danger of religion. Wars in the name of the profit, addictions are much bigger monsters than stories about brutal justice of God.
No I am not. We have plenty of examples in human history where religion has become abusive.
Not even the history of Asia/Japan is violence free.
It isn't any call to end religion of any label, but no sorry, religions are made up of humans and humans seek social order and form governments, and as long as humans seek power, any religion is a volcano, some are simply more active and some are dormant relatively speaking in relationship to geography and period of time in human history.
If you refuse to accept that you set yourself up for future disasters. Don't make assumptions that our species will always do the right thing, even if most humans intend on doing the right thing.
I said in a prior post and stand behind saying that most humans are good. But bad claims can and do make otherwise decent humans get to the point of doing horrible things in groups.
