(July 14, 2020 at 7:01 am)Belacqua Wrote: This is because you associate a religion with its worst manifestations. Islam with hand-chopping, Christianity with anti-gay belief.Because they are still doing that and worse and show no signs of stopping, or even wanting to.
(July 14, 2020 at 7:01 am)Belacqua Wrote: For some reason you don't associate any religion with its best aspects -- for example, loving one's neighbor or devoting oneself to unselfish goodness.Because they stole those concepts from others. They didn't originate them and indeed, actively subvert such "nice" concepts. Without religion we would still have those "nice" concepts without the ludicrous religious baggage.