(January 11, 2010 at 7:32 pm)Zagreus Wrote: First thing you’ve said that is interesting. You’re also wrong. Religion is an idea, a set of beliefs, a philosophy; it is not a thing that can do wrong in itself. People do bad things because they choose to do so – if they justify this due to religion, or their upbringing (religious or not), or anything else, it is them that is to blame, not the idea. Again, natural selection, via eugenics, did not cause the holocaust, regardless of whether someone claimed this to justify it.
Yes, and where do those beliefs live?
In people,no where else.
Take away the people and there is no religion.
Religion was created by people who use it to control other people.
And it is used as the ultimate get out of jail card, I did it in the name of God so it is ok.
And it is used repeatedly as an excuse not to think.
So yes I laugh at religion.
Yes I know, it is a strange thing to find on an atheist forum.
Someone who doesn't take religion seriously.

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