RationalPoet........ The longer I am online after 14 years and counting, the less labels matter to me. Religion, as a human invented concept, in all of our history, worldwide, is simply a very tribal reflection of our evolutionary survival. It is inevitable to varying degrees to cause human divisions. Not even Buddhism can claim to escape this. There are different sects of Buddhism, such as Tibet, Chinese Buddhists and Japanese Buddhists, and those groups are not exactly friends.
The biggest offenders currently are the Abrahamic religions, but to say that other religions are immune to divisions would be absurd.
We have to more and more as a species foster the idea that our species ability to be cruel or compassionate is in our evolution, and not a patent owned by a religion, and not written into holy books or holy writings.
But yes, as far as the bible, it is full of verses used by humans to justify bigotry, sexism and homophobia. The Koran is not much better. And to say that the Jewish OT is free of bigotry would be absurd as well. They are all books conveying the idea that one group is better than all others.
The biggest offenders currently are the Abrahamic religions, but to say that other religions are immune to divisions would be absurd.
We have to more and more as a species foster the idea that our species ability to be cruel or compassionate is in our evolution, and not a patent owned by a religion, and not written into holy books or holy writings.
But yes, as far as the bible, it is full of verses used by humans to justify bigotry, sexism and homophobia. The Koran is not much better. And to say that the Jewish OT is free of bigotry would be absurd as well. They are all books conveying the idea that one group is better than all others.
