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Originally posted by PaulyJ
Oh i did i also did not assume you blamed all problems on religion.

I am just confused as to why religion is discussed as anything to do with "the problem with this world is" when it is plainly obvious that religion is a man made creation, thus man must be at fault.

If i create a gun and bullets, and kill someone, i get the blame not the gun, and that is what most talk of religion is about, blaming the gun and ignoring the shooter.

My point exactly, the original religion itself didnt cause problems, simple example, a commandment, do not kill, originally applied to only the killing someon in the same tribe of israel as yourself, then came to be applied to any of the tribes, nowadays its accepted by society as do not kill anyone unless we are at war with them(or other legal exceptions).

The original rules for any (in fact all established) individual religion were designed (either by god or by man) for people within that society to live together and make that society a better, more secure society. Religions cultured tolerance, care of the sick and weak, etc.

It was later mans interpretation or corruption of the basic tenets of the religion that caused most of the religious based wars - the crusades for example were a war of conquest instigated by greedy Christian leaders who wanted to ensure their place in both history and heaven but also to lay claim to the lands of the middle east. The leaders of the Islam people were more than willing to allow pilgrims to travel to the Christian religious shrines etc, also it was the muslims, who on the whole fought the war of the crusades honourably, who applied the christian knights code of chivalry as well as their own codes to both sides, unlike the christian knights who generally applied thier codes of chivalry only on themselves