Why some humans are so evil: double standards and irreligion

[Catholic_Lady]

I would argue that a person still chooses to follow that religion "by their own volition". Contrary to what appears to be popular belief around here, us theists aren't mindless drones. If Christianity all of the sudden states that rape is good and that Jesus commands us to rape people in order to multiply, I would no longer be a Christian. But it doesn't. It states the opposite.

Good people can fall under a bad influence for any reason, bad religion only being one of them. And as i keep saying, it works the other way around too. A bad person can be influenced to do good because of good religion, or because of any other positive influene.

An annoying inconsistency I keep seeing here is the quickness to blame a person's religion for every bad act they commit. But when a religious person is influenced by their religion to do good , such as all the religious charities and church fundraisers for the needy, all of the sudden the argument becomes "Oh, well, their religion has nothing to do with them doing these good things." I've seen it multiple times. (Though I suppose I've also seen "They're only doing good things so they can win points for Heaven, that's it." Either way it's pretry unfair and extremely inconsistent)

No most people are brought into religion much before they can "choose". Let me ask you this, why do you choose to be a "catholic" instead of a "vaishnab"(a sect of vishnu worshippers in hinduism) or a sikh?

Yes, in this society rape is considered bad and our laws about it are not perfect, but how the old testament deals with rape is morally much worse. I mean do you think it is good to force someone to marry their rapist? Yes these days people can ignore these in the name of new testament because our society has evolved, but in the past people didn't just stop being christians due to these bad parts of christianity, rather they embraced it. Would you say every christian who believed the old testament was a bad person? Or was christianity a bad religion if not for the new testament?

I was raised Catholic, but it is my choice that I follow it. I'm not some mindless robot. Catholic teaching both on faith and on morals makes logical sense to me. If tomorrow the Church claimed God wants us to steal and rape (which it doesn't, despite whatever literal interpretation you're pulling from the OT), I'd realize that it wasn't what I thought it was, and I'd leave. From everyone I know, I can't imagine a single one of them being like "Oh, the Church says rape is good now? Ok then, imma go out and find me some person to rape." We are not idiots.

You're still not really addressing my initial point, which is that religion can be either a negative OR positive influence depending on what the ideologies are, and it is dishonest and inconsistent to only claim it does the former.