(June 24, 2015 at 1:17 pm)Brian37 Wrote:(June 24, 2015 at 12:52 pm)paulpablo Wrote: I don't know what you mean by turning our natural behaviour into a comic book but I doubt It will change the fact that people can be racist with or without religion and that slavery exists in places where no Abrahamic god was heard of.
Certainly you understand what I mean by taking our natural behavior and turning it into a comic book. Just like you know Santa is really your parents. It takes the idea of giving and turns it into a comic book claim. It turns authority "Naughty or nice" into a comic book claim.
Giving is an act of empathy not magic. Regulating like a parent while varying in attitudes from family to family are also attempts to create social order and cooperation. Santa is a child like concept of our natural behavior, and the same can be said for religion. It takes our behaviors and makes comic book justifications for them, good or bad. Santa and religion distort reality, but only one is viewed as fact when both are fiction.
None of what you have said provides evidence of religion being the cause of racism. The most you can say is that there are some religions that promote racism.
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Impersonation is treason.
