Created 18 years ago2006-05-22 15:54:12 UTC by Seventh-Monkey
Those three atrocities were all caused by DEVOUT RELIGIOUS PEOPLETheir religion's basic principles are clearly against murder. You can hardly call anyone who participated in that "devout".
I know many very honest and hard working people with no religious inclinations at all. I also know devout people who are evil.Absolutely true. The question is, would honesty and morality be the same today if the world had never had the influence of ANY religion? We will never know.
Religion guarantees nothing.
PLEASE stop saying people are intolerant of intolerance, it doesn't make senseWell of course it does. They don't like the way you think, and you don't like the way they think. What you see as intolerance is actually a set of beliefs for them. So you are not being intolerant of intolerance, you are being intolerant of their beliefs. It's not that hard to understand.
If you thought there was some superpower and moral code that you thought made life better for you and your peers (as well as making you feel better about everything), would you not try to tell people about it?Indeed, like... atheism :D.
So, Orph, what you're saying is that you will give up your chance at eternal salvation on the chance that it MIGHT be right, strictly on the principle that some people you dont even like won't shut up about it? Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face...So one should accept jesus christ as his personal saviour because... you MIGHT go to hell if you don't? Why don't we just follow every religion on earth because we MIGHT go to its hell when we die?
Christians didn't SAY this, they just KNOW this because they read the bible.Which was written by jews (humans).
Are you saying that if you removed religion from america it would implode on itself because the majority of people would become twisted murderers, rapists, etc as soon as the 'barrier' to immorality was clearedNo, but some would. Which isn't to say that religion's the ideal way to keep miscreants in line, especially since I don't think there's any surveys like "If you weren't a Christian, would you become a murderer/rapist?" Either way, it's not going away until mankind is extinct.