(November 29, 2011 at 12:12 am)Rhythm Wrote: If religion were such a simple thing as a lack of knowledge or understanding I'd wonder too, I suppose. Thing is, that's not what religion is.It is based on it, though. Back then, people didn't know as many things as we do now. Today, it is still true for some people. As for it not being just that, well why does the freedom of atheism/humanism as well as science not counteract faith?
"Sisters, you know only the north; I have traveled in the south lands. There are churches there, believe me, that cut their children too, as the people of Bolvangar did--not in the same way, but just as horribly. They cut their sexual organs, yes, both boys and girls; they cut them with knives so that they shan't feel. That is what the Church does, and every church is the same: control, destroy, obliterate every good feeling. So if a war comes, and the Church is on one side of it, we must be on the other, no matter what strange allies we find ourselves bound to."
-Ruta Skadi, The Subtle Knife
-Ruta Skadi, The Subtle Knife
