(April 18, 2015 at 7:31 pm)abaris Wrote: Having been a christian, although in name only, I know most about christianity.
That said, I'm against all religions if they're radical in their practice. I despise radical jews just as much as radical muslims or christians. They all would be killers if they had their way and they all would happily establish - for lack of a better word - their version of Sharia law.
I'm not against religion or religious people as such. In fact I'm one of the people, who don't think the world would be better off without religion because I'm sure that it would just be replaced by any other given ideology. So I rather go with the devil I know.
I agree. I also think religion in a broader sense as well as irrationality is rooted in our DNA. Not believing in god doesn't make someone special because we are all prone to irrational thinking and delusions. To completely erase religion would be to deny our ancestry. If it wasn't for Christianity my country wouldn't even exist.
Religion is not an exception, but it's also not special - Religion causes harm for many reasons, but so does politics, nurturing and money. I can't simply lump everyone into the same category because I say so. To want to end religion as your goal is basically the same goal of extremists who believe everyone should convert to their faith because it's the right one.
How many people who criticize religion have degrees in philosophy, religion and theology and have actually studied deeply human psychology to see how it works? How many people in the west criticize anything other than the Abrahamic god? Are religious people irrational? The Japanese are 80% Shinto and they seem pretty rational, productive and have high IQ's.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you
