(January 10, 2015 at 3:18 pm)dyresand Wrote:(January 10, 2015 at 3:11 pm)robvalue Wrote: Each person who puts forward the idea that "faith" is a good idea is propping up the religious institutions around the world. Religion is holding back proper teaching of science, interfering with public policies, causing divisiveness, wars, terrorism, children traumatised by indoctrination, spread of aids...
However small your part is in religion, you validate the whole deal by your vote of confidence in faith. Religion causes a lot of harm, and to deny that is to deny reality.
^Exactly
Religious institutions complain the world is a terrible place. But they are the ones who are causing the issues and problems in the world and yet none of the followers really see what is going on.
It's a great scam, it allows you to set up power, cause needless problems so people turn to you for solutions to problems you perpetuate. Throw pretty stories to them they will blindly follow you off a cliff.
The only way to keep religion on a leash, which is all you really can do realistically is to treat it as a weapon.
