I can see that I could have focued to much on that one aspect of things but, what about my other statment.
compared to the number of good people doing evil in the name of religion, what is the tiny ammount of bad people pretending to be good (while they remain bad people)?
theres example every day of good people doing and supporting evil and I see no real examples of bad people doing good. It does not make logical sense to me for these reasons: Bad people can know they are doing bad and still do it, thats why they are called bad people. when they do good they might still be bad people, they will not suddenly change who they are.
but religion can trick good people much easier. It causes then to do bad things thinking they are good. Religion creates us/them situations and teaches people not to think for themselves, the church knows best and it is right and if you question it you have sinned. In this way they make good people willingly do bad things thinking they are doing good. Like the gay marrage thing in California.
Many of those people have been lied to and do not beleive homosexuality exists. these people aren't gay, they are just straight people sinning and they should be forced to stop because it offends god. While in reality, gay people really are gay, and being gay is not evil. they have just been told it is by a book and are willing to destroy gay peoples free rights, human rights I would say, because of their beleifs.
So with so many people freely willing to destroy another persons right to have a partner of the same gender (and this is one example of hundreds of ways religion makes good do evil) how could it possibly force enough bad people to pretend to be good (at least until they can get away with evil again, they're still evil) to be worth it?
compared to the number of good people doing evil in the name of religion, what is the tiny ammount of bad people pretending to be good (while they remain bad people)?
theres example every day of good people doing and supporting evil and I see no real examples of bad people doing good. It does not make logical sense to me for these reasons: Bad people can know they are doing bad and still do it, thats why they are called bad people. when they do good they might still be bad people, they will not suddenly change who they are.
but religion can trick good people much easier. It causes then to do bad things thinking they are good. Religion creates us/them situations and teaches people not to think for themselves, the church knows best and it is right and if you question it you have sinned. In this way they make good people willingly do bad things thinking they are doing good. Like the gay marrage thing in California.
Many of those people have been lied to and do not beleive homosexuality exists. these people aren't gay, they are just straight people sinning and they should be forced to stop because it offends god. While in reality, gay people really are gay, and being gay is not evil. they have just been told it is by a book and are willing to destroy gay peoples free rights, human rights I would say, because of their beleifs.
So with so many people freely willing to destroy another persons right to have a partner of the same gender (and this is one example of hundreds of ways religion makes good do evil) how could it possibly force enough bad people to pretend to be good (at least until they can get away with evil again, they're still evil) to be worth it?
