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Originally Posted by Redway
I wouldn't go that far. 9/11 wouldn't have happened, ISIS would've been unheard of, and people wouldn't use passages from the Bible to justify their sexism and homophobia.
None of that's to say that religion is necessarily a bad thing, of course. Just that religion is a course of crime and injustice in this world, as are a lot of other things, whether good or bad in themselves. I'm not anti-religious but there are some life-shattering events that wouldn't have happened if religion didn't exist. Just as slavery in America wouldn't have occurred (at least not on the scale it did) if white people didn't exist, but that's not to say that all white people are racist arseholes. But I don't think you can really say that everything would be exactly the same.
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People wouldn't use bible passages to justify them because the bible wouldn't exist. No doubt something else would be there for people to justify awful actions..