(March 29, 2019 at 4:00 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: It seems that it is unavoidable, if not natural, for any religion that has in its center all powerful being to dwell into preaching hate and racism. That's because bad things happen in the world: from natural disasters to human disasters, and to defend the all powerful being its adherents automatically start blaming people and groups of people for bad things (diseases, earthquakes, floods) therefore doctrines of hate and racism get created.
Um this just doesn't apply to monotheism and polytheism. Despite what many in the west want to believe about the religions of Asia, they are very superstitious, and while many of their religions do not have a God or Gods, they do have concepts of ancestor spirit worship and do believe in good spirits and bad spirits and even punishment in and underworld and reward in the heavens. And even in a place like North Korea, it would be a mistake to say they have no religion there. They are their own twisted concept of worship of the leader as a god.
The fact is most humans have a religion of some sort, and even long before there was human writing or nations, humans were grouping and competing and worshiping too. And humans even after the first writings and first boarders were still grouping and competing and basing their power struggles on the social norms of their local rulers. That has always been worldwide.
