RE: List the harmful effects of religion ?
July 10, 2010 at 6:51 pm
(This post was last modified: July 10, 2010 at 7:07 pm by chasm.)
1. It can drive people to be hypocritical, i.e. a Christian threatening to kill/actually killing an atheist even though killing is a sin.
2. It creates closed minds, i.e. most religious people.
3. It creates idiots, i.e. fundamental Christians, people who cherry pick.
4. It can cause people to oppress people of other religions/the same religion, i.e. Hitler's Germany, the Middle East.
5. It can drive people to do crazy things, i.e. 9/11, Virginia Tech shootings, Texas Board of Education rewriting U.S. history, Catholic priests molesting children and then trying to get immunity over the state.
6. It can cause people to lose things, i.e. someone losing custody of their kids because they are an atheist, someone losing their job because they are an atheist.
7. Promotes evil, i.e. the Bible/other religious texts promote slavery, etc.
8. Waste time, i.e. someone praying for God to cure AIDS instead of joining an organization to cure AIDS.
9. It can cause death, i.e. 9/11, the Pope saying not to use condoms if you have AIDS because condoms are "against God".
P.S. I'll add more when I think of it. This is just off the top of my head.
2. It creates closed minds, i.e. most religious people.
3. It creates idiots, i.e. fundamental Christians, people who cherry pick.
4. It can cause people to oppress people of other religions/the same religion, i.e. Hitler's Germany, the Middle East.
5. It can drive people to do crazy things, i.e. 9/11, Virginia Tech shootings, Texas Board of Education rewriting U.S. history, Catholic priests molesting children and then trying to get immunity over the state.
6. It can cause people to lose things, i.e. someone losing custody of their kids because they are an atheist, someone losing their job because they are an atheist.
7. Promotes evil, i.e. the Bible/other religious texts promote slavery, etc.
8. Waste time, i.e. someone praying for God to cure AIDS instead of joining an organization to cure AIDS.
9. It can cause death, i.e. 9/11, the Pope saying not to use condoms if you have AIDS because condoms are "against God".
P.S. I'll add more when I think of it. This is just off the top of my head.
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