Hello, i am a real Christian

[Loki_999]

1. Don't forget the holy wars, dark ages, the inquisition, Hui Minorities' War, the 30 years war, Hitler, ritual suicides and human sacrifices, etc. Or are you going to target only one or 2 religions. Modern Paganism, buddhism, shinto, Din-i-Ilahi, Confucianism, Bön, Māori religion, non-denominational Christianity, etc. are all religions that I believe teach tolerance of others and haven't started any wars, done any ritualistic killlings, mutilate their genitals, or hold child molestation seminars. Let me ask, is it fanatacism and intolerance you want to abolish or religion?

Shai Hulud!

I would guess that those religions have done little harm because they have not achieved any significant power or less extreme. The problem with some of the bigger religions is that they think they can control how people behave... absolute power corrupting and all that.

This is one of the problems with how Christian's happily portray the modern catholic church. Oh look, we don't do any of that nasty stuff anymore. When was the last time we had a crusade? When was the last time we had popes like the Rodrigo Borgia? Our church doesn't do bad things any more....

Sure, putting aside allegations of child molestation and plain stupid comments made by senior priests, does anyone really believe that if the Catholic church was to regain significant world power they would not abuse that power? They would not return to the old ways of forcing their opinions on those who do not believe or those who stray from the path? Give it long enough and a form of Spanish Inquisition would return.

This has nothing to do with religion directly, just power, control, and humanity, but religion tends to create a rather inassailable moral position for the church and its easy for them (when in control) to tell others that they are sinners and heretics and they will burn in the fires of hell... and there are always those who are willing to speed up the process, not wait for god's judgement, and burn people alive just to show how faithful they are.

In other words, people will use any excuse to justify their actions, and god is the ultimate excuse.