(October 14, 2013 at 4:46 pm)Dunno Wrote: I'm right, and you're wrong, bashing religions as if they want to harm people when all they ever do is go on and on about morality and being good to people, if a person sets out to do bad, then he's not doing religious work, even if they do it in the name of religion.
Utter bullshit. The bible says homosexuality is a sin, and religious people see fit to push that moral code on the rest of society, which is sanctioned by their holy book. A person is doing religious work if they are spreading the message of their religion, regardless of whether the consequences are positive or negative. Often times being a "good person" to a religious person is not being a good person to the rest of society, and you fail to take that into consideration in your attempt to play peacemaker.
Religion does good, yes, but to say religion does only good and is only about proper ethical behavior flies in the face of thousands of years of evidence.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
