RE: When people claim religion is harmless.
January 16, 2018 at 4:36 pm
(This post was last modified: January 16, 2018 at 4:42 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(January 16, 2018 at 4:35 pm)Whateverist Wrote: Are governments harmless? People? Animals? Machines? So what do we do, avoid these at all cost or learn to work with them? My answer for religions is the same.
We put dangerous animals down and retire harmful machinery. We drop bombs on dangerous governments and violently rebel against them. "Religion" gets a pass on those normal responses, for obvious reasons. Aint nobody looking to genocide the religious, stuff them all in a junkyard, or cannibalize them for parts, lol. If they were religious coyotes or combine harvesters -or even theocratic governments.....however, we would. That's exactly what we've done. On occasion, we'll even do it to "religious extremists"...which are really just people who believe the fairy tales in profound ways that the purportedly faithful don't.
We don't have to "work with religion"..it's not exactly a reliable partner anyway. We have to work with people. We can do the one without humoring the other, obviously.
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