[Jamie89]

Originally Posted by Johnnyuk123

Hi,
I get the point that your making 100%. But just look around the world at who is killing who and in the name of what. Read any book of faith and you'll find horrendous things asked in order to have faith in whichever god it is. Those books warp peoples minds from a very young age and stop them from being free thinkers and in this day and age we need more free thinkers in the world and not more sheep.

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.