Why some humans are so evil: double standards and irreligion

[Aoi Magi]

Where exactly did I say the words you are putting in my mouth?  
Goal of religion isn't to get rid of humanity, it's goal is to make people be submissive to authority.


Regarding your morality based on religion, you've got it the other way around, your choice of religion is based on and conforms with your morality. You weren't born a catholic, you were raised a catholic. The heathens here don't go around raping, murdering people despite not believing in your religion, and you wouldn't either because good people are good irrespective of their religious affiliations.

Sorry, you made it sound like losing my humanity would be the final step of/intention of my faith, if I were to go that far.

I suppose you are right about the goal of my faith being to be "submissive to authority." Though that's an interesting way of putting it. Most of us would say that the goal is to strive to live by God's commandments... and I was taught that God commands us to love other people and do good for other people. Because all people have inherent dignity. Nearly all morality revolves around that basic fundamental principle.

Anyway, this whole interaction between you and I started because I told DownBeatDrum that religious ideals arent in and of themselves, inherently bad. It just depends on what the ideals are. Religious ideals can influence a person to do good or they can influence them to do bad, depending on what the religious ideals are... like any other ideals we live our life by. I'm still not sure how our discussion has followed that.

See the point I am trying to make is that religious ideals are not exactly the same as other ideals because with other ideals people are choosing the ideals of their own volition entirely, bad people are drawn to bad ideals and vice-versa, but with religious ideals, even good people can come under the influence of bad ideals quite easily because they have been conditioned to be "submissive to authority".