Now you're probably opening this thinking "oh great another rant on religion", well you're right. But please keep reading on because what I have to say is important and applies to all beliefs, even if you don't have one.
Many religions now believe the world is going to end, soon. Basically they believe this because of "signs" and their precious magic books. Well the scary thing is the world could end soon, and religion could actually be its cause. The fact is, for the world to live on religion must die. Faith is nothing to brag about it, and people who accept faith, or preach it are just intellectual slaveholders. Religion has caused so much craziness and destruction and I think 9/11 is a great example, however I won't get into it much because of everything else I have to say.
Now, why is religion so powerful? Because it allows people who DON'T have the answer to what happens when we die to think they do. If you're a christian or any other religion you may think it's great to say "PLEASE GOD I'M WILLING! I'LL DO ANYTHING YOU ASK OF ME!" Well guess what, there are no gods talking to us so that void is filled in by corrupt and often hostile people.
This is why anti-religious rationalists must come out of the freakin closet and let themselves be heard. And for those of you who only consider yourselves "a little religious", is the safe feeling of believing in a religion worth the pain and destruction it causes? If you belonged to a social group that wasn't a religion that involved so much bigotry, homophobia, violence, and ignorance as religions you would quit the club and protest against it. And if the end of the world comes because of nuclear arms led by religious nut jobs... just remember what the true problem was. We found a way to end lives on a mass scale before we stopped wishing for it.
As Kirby said, these are only the extremists. Maybe Ghandi should've said "Hate the extremists, not the religious institution." Although I don't know how that could really fit into any other discussion...
why not hate the religious institutions... especially the leaders? they're just as crazy.
why not hate the religious institutions... especially the leaders? they're just as crazy.
Because the EXTREMISTS are the problems. If the leaders of the religious institutions ARE extremists, then hate them. If they are just as crazy, then they are extremists, so I don't really know what your question is. Ghandi should've said, to clarify any misunderstandings, "Hate the extremists, not the religious instituions unless the religious institutions are based off of the extremists view, in which case, hating the religious institutions would be the same as hating the extremists." Not very catchy, though.
If one person in a club of 1,000 people killed someone, would you consider the whole club and all of the clubs similar to it evil, or just the one person?
well in that sentence you said we should hate all of them, just hate the leaders more. Happy to explain grammar to you!
Lol, by religious institutions I assumed he meant the religious leaders like bishops and priests and I was talking about people like the pope by religious leaders.
well first of all I love how it's sort of like a 3v1 debate while I have no help lol.
I have a question for you.
If one person in a club of 1,000 people killed someone, would you consider the whole club and all of the clubs similar to it evil, or just the one person?
I think someone asked this? and the answer would be the one person however it's not like that with religion... in religion you have something called FOLLOWERS.
