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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier
Organised religion can't be disproven but it is inherently illogical  . I mean, you can believe in pretty much anything if you want, but the inability to disprove it doesn't make it realistic and I honestly can think of no valid reason for people to have to shy away from saying that. And there does come a point of unlikelihood where it is valid to say that something is, for all intents and purposes, quite clearly false. Every organised religion falls under that heading. The concept of "some form of intelligent design that is completely unlike anything we have ever described or could ever even comprehend" is an unknown. That's not the same as saying "so Christians (or whoever) might be right!". Organised religions are man-made fictions, created to attempt to understand that which hasn't yet or can't be understood, and ultimately used to control. End of story, for me.
Now... My absolute MAIN issue with organised religion, is that it's entire existence hinges on the indoctrination of children from a young age. Without that aspect, religion simply ceases to exist in any major form. Religion continues by getting into the heads of the very young before they have developed the ability to use logic and reason (adolescence) and sets itself up as a major source of, strangely enough, both comfort AND fear, and once it's embedded in a brand new mind like that, the roots run deep. It becomes part of people's entire sense of self, the world, and existence entirely. It's not something that sits well with me, at all. |
That's a very good post and I agree with you, what I fail to understand is that when others point out other dangers with regard religion on these threads why you keep bringing up colour? Can you explain that because I'd like to hear it? The treatment of women and girls, fgm, brainwashing, enforcing religious dress codes are serious elements of religious conditioning.