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Originally Posted by Sleighmie
Yeah I agree with that in principle, in that there are some awful religious teachings and of course it's hugely influential. But I can't help but think also that if there was no religion in the world, we'd just find a different reason to segregate ourselves from each other and attack each other. Like, all those religious books that you mentioned were written by people, and so if we take religion out of the equation, we still have those same people in society who want to segregate/attack. Surely they'd just end up doing it in the name of something other than religion. Because people like that, religious or not, will always find followers. It's more a question of 'root cause' in my eyes, and I think the real problems lie with us as a people, and religion is more of a facade, that rather than determining who you are/how you will act etc, gets used as the excuse for why people do the things they do.
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Good post!
There are lots of nasty people in the world for sure and many of them not even religious too. People at best are fickle. The fickle ones ruin it for the many decent human beings in the world who just want to live in peace and live their lives in a peaceful loving way. It saddens me to know that these books are allowed knowing just how much hate they encourage in the world. Without them there would still be hate but far less of it i am sure.