I love religion!

[Zagreus]

In reply to your earlier question.

I grew up in a totally secular household. My parents were neither pro or anti-religion…

This makes sense too, as you seem to not show an empathy for religious ideas, in that you cannot even take their views seriously, and don’t really understand them. I was not inferring you had been abused, but just trying to get a background on your views. Your comments sound like me when I was 15, so I was just trying to work out why you were making those comments.

My disrespect for Religion is purely intellectual.

Your comments do not exactly demonstrate this as being fact.

And just because someone is a philosopher doesn't mean they are automatically right.

I have never tried to say that.

You can only judge religion by peoples actions.

But yet you ignore the good things from religion and only focus on the negative, so you are not judging it fairly. Martin Luther King was inspired by religion, as well as many other people who have done philanthropic actions.

It is a purely human thing, it is not

something in and of itself. Geography on the other hand is, take away people

and geography will still exist.

Apart from the correction below your original post, this is to miss the point of my comment and focus on the specific. Maths is not something in and of itself either, but you aren’t grasping my view of religion.

You are right in one respect though, Religion as a major factor in human

development does deserve serious study and understanding.

Just like War.

That doesn't mean I need to accord it some sort of reverence or think it's a good thing.

I’ve never said YOU have to do anything, I simply said I find religion fascinating. I also find war interesting, but I don’t necessarily accord either with an ethical judgment as a stereotype. We agree it is a major factor, I just like to try to understand it, rather than simply dismiss it.