(January 16, 2018 at 9:03 am)alpha male Wrote:(January 16, 2018 at 8:50 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Sure man, religious people don't want to look at the ugly side of religion. They filter the negative and delude themselves.
And anti-religious people don't want to look at the good side of religion. They filter the positive and delude themselves.
Considering the ubiquity of religion in human cultures, it seems obvious that religion generally results in a net good for society.
The Kray twins loved their mum. I guess that makes up for the violence and killing, yeah?
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.'
