[Shasown]

Originally Posted by Dezzy

Organised Religion is bad because of what most of it promotes and how it can by used to turn people against each other but in fairness Buddhism doesn't preach hate or violence so on the Totem pole of the most violent religion it has to be pretty low in comparision to others.

Neither does Christianity nor most other organised religions. The basic tenets of most religions are peace and love. Surely the assessment of how violent the adherents of any particular religion should be how many acts of violence have been committed in its name as opposed to what they preach.

Its the people doing the organising that promote the violence and hate. Using religion for their own agenda.