(July 11, 2015 at 9:45 am)IATIA Wrote:(July 11, 2015 at 3:08 am)Parkers Tan Wrote: Greed kills religion in terms of violence, suffering, and evil promulgated. Greed.
What's scary is that greed lies deeper in the human psyche than religion. You can eliminate religion altogether, and you will still have wars over resources, land, financial systems, market strategies, productive zones, slave labor, food supply, and so on -- and all of those devolve into greed when you really boil it down.
I disagree with your notion that religion is the biggest factor in violence and poverty, and I look forward you essaying your support for it.
IMHO, religion is just the most common excuse, not reason, for the greatest catastrophes. Without religion, 9/11 would still have happened, the Inquisition would still have happened, the Crusades would still have happened and so on. Bad people are just bad, without rhyme or reason. The biggest problem with religion is the effect of my personal liberties.
How can you seriously say that about the Inquisition and the Crusades? How could they have happened without religion? Without religion, "heresy" would not exist, so how could people torture people due to their heresy? In the Crusades, the invasion of the "holy land" was prompted because it was the "holy land." Without religion, no land would be holy, so how could the Crusades have happened without religion?
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
