RE: Why is religion so repugnant to some people
January 12, 2015 at 2:54 pm
(This post was last modified: January 12, 2015 at 2:55 pm by Violet.)
(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.
Faith is a very very good idea, and is quite necessary for us to function... we arrogantly believe the world is mostly stable, follows sets of rules, and sometimes: that we're not crazy...
But we have to do that, or else we'll all die in doubt.
Personal faith in gods/the universe/the dream, on the other hand... is not as good of an idea. Maybe it helps a person here or there; maybe it hurts a person there or thither. But... it ends up being very much neutral.
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Religion, which is the establishment of a doctrine which is to be fed to a mass of people such to grow the power of the 'clergy' in some self-righteous sanctimony... is a very very very bad idea.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
