Bruised Bibles

[deusexpirata]

Religion has honestly caused more enmity and war than anything in the world. My question for the population is.. why do you cling to it so dearly when all it does is separate us as people? It makes one person hate and misjudge another on principle alone. It makes entire populations sneer at other populations with misguided disgust. I hate religion

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Religion, a required necessity for humans (Continued)

[anonymous]

(Sorry it was too long)
Einstein a scientist believed in God. He also knew of man's inhumanity towards his fellow man. Religion does not cause stife it's the people who follow that religion. Who started the Crusades? A Pope not God? Who started the Islamic Jihad? A man not God. Who killed Jesus? True the people responsible were Jewish, but it was a governor of the place where he lived that ordered his crucifiction.Why you ask? It was because he feared that his rule was threatened. God never points a flaming finger down at the Earth ordering people to commit acts of violence. All the religions on this planet are inherently peaceful. Most people who follow that religion believe this. It is the few who hate others for their views. Take the Islamic faith for example. They don't preach that God want them to kill the so called "infidels" man made this. True God is a creation of man but from the earlist civilization to modern day religion was always something that existed. Also you are wrong about what religion preaches.The Hindu religion does in no way preach that we should follow our faith blindly. It tells us to ask questions. In fact, one of our scriputes is basically a question answer session between an incarnation of one of our gods and his faithful friend. This scripture talks about duty(to ones family, to ones role in life, and to ones self), it also speaks of ways to follow that path. It speaks of rightiousness, not hatred. It is true that this converstion happened on a battle field, but what of it, it tells us that sometimes war is inevitable. It speaks not only of right and wrong, good and evil, but also of ways to live in this modern day world. This particular scripture even if you throw out all the Vedas is enough. This particular scripture was written in a way that it is adaptive, changing, ever growing like our world. Ethics and morals are not things that you can just throw out, they are needed especially in our times. So in closing I ask you this. How can you say that religion is completely dead or dying? I can show you several ways that religion is working in our world. Where would we be if not for religion, hatred, violence, crime all these would be significantly higher. I hope I helped explain this issue, and if I didn't then, oh well. I thank you though, your post made me rethink my religion for a minute, and it has now reaffirmed my faith. I understand your frustration, but without religion what does man have to aspire for, nothing. If no one believed in Heaven and Hell what is happening in the world would only happen at a grander scale. God only knows what would happen. This violence and evil are not due to religion they are happening due to a misguided sense of that individuals religion. Read up on the Hindu religion i will give you what help I can with the terminology. It is an interesting "religion" I put this in quotes because it is less of a religion and more of a way of life.

-Indy

Spelling error I know

[anonymous]

I know I spelled Rightousness wrong (there i fixed it)

Sorry,

Indy

AHAHAHAHA

[deusexpirata]

It's "righteousness" you fat tard.

Re: AHAHAHAHA

[anonymous]

Fine, but dont you have anything else to say. Or are you giving into my reasoning that it is human nature not religion causing strife in our world?

-Indy

I don't know..

[deusexpirata]

I don't know where anyone got the impression that this entry was pointing the blame of [anything] on religion. Most of what I say shouldn't be taken in context anyways.

Human nature? There's no such thing as "human nature". If you made an attempt at putting a definition on human nature, what would you say human nature consisted of? Setting aside the obvious characteristics of human nature being the need to eat, sleep and not be hit by lightning.. what else could you possibly clump into a category as vaguely and poorly named as human nature.

You want to call murder human nature? Or perhaps we could waste an hour or two debating whether there's a difference between killing and murder? If you think avarice and enmity are things of nature and instinct, fine, but don't call it human nature.. the concept is nothing more than a collective term for the more subtle factors and features of our survivability.

By calling nature into account, you are discrediting the individual effort that some humans are making to bring strife to our world. People like me.