(June 17, 2013 at 9:58 pm)Polaris Wrote:(June 17, 2013 at 9:51 pm)cato123 Wrote: I get it now. You're just randomly spitting out facts without drawing a conclusion. Got it.
You want the conclusion, American?
Societies that have shunned religion for secular control have been the most destructive and most dangerous to humanity.
It's a real simple reason for that, but I guess American atheists (with some British ones as well...apple does not fall far from the tree) don't like admitting it....
It's a lot simpler to control with religion, so many of the dictatorial societies in the 20th century who wished to supplant religion for total control resorted to violence to gain some of the same control. Even using an extremely high number for deaths attributed to religion, these societies helped to foster an atmosphere of hate that killed five to ten times the amount of people killed due to religion over the course of 10 thousand years only in the course of half a century.
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"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama
"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama