[quote]I can't think of many wars that didn't have some sort of religious element to them. In fact...yeah well, none come to mind.
Not even the Iraq War/Operation Iraqi Freedom/Second GulfWar which was started in fear of weapons of mass destruction? (Or some say: Oil) Not even the New Zealand land wars?[/quote]
WWI and WWII, the whole Cold War, the War of the Roses, the Spanish-American War, the War of 1812, the American Civil War, the Spanish Civil War, the American Indian War, the Industrialist battles in Africa, and Communism, Facism, and Nazism were all based on religousless governments.
Not even the Iraq War/Operation Iraqi Freedom/Second GulfWar which was started in fear of weapons of mass destruction? (Or some say: Oil) Not even the New Zealand land wars?
I don't know about the New Zealand wars, but for the middle east ones, even through religion wasn't the cause, it sure was fuel for the war.
The biggest problem we have in this world is hate. Hate is the sole source of everything else. Greed, violence, bullying, war, whatever it is, its source is hate. If we could get rid of hate, then the world would be a much nicer place to live in.
Politics, Greed, Pollution, and some of the newer religions. On the news there was this religion which would like to remain anonymous where 20 people died because the host said the aliens would like it and that they would become more powerful.
Temptation. Your not born hating people but tempted to hate people and do very bad things either later in life or ery early on. Temptation covers just about everything from stealing, murder, ****, bullying, war, racial violence, a much much more.
Politics, Greed, Pollution, and some of the newer religions.
I believe these new religions that tell it's members to kill themselves to please aliens/random god that's never been heard of before are called Cult's :P
There is no ONE biggest problem; there are so many, so great, it cannot be any one of them, unless someone comes up with a new, bigger problem. It's all about opinion, point of view, belief. But, probably one of the worst problems would be conflicting religion.
Christians believe they are the only right ones, and everyone else worship devils, although they themselves do not fully understand what they worship.
Athiests do not believe in God, therefore having no religion, yet they HAVE a religion, AND a God. Religion being Atheism, God being science & Logic.
Muslims are a confused system. They fight each-other, not unlike the 12th - 16th centuries of war between different denominations of christianity. Most muslims are peaceful and conservitive, while otehrs are radical and violent.
Buhdhists are pacifists, who worship a man. Sidhartha never SAID he was God, and never WANTED to be God. Nice guy. Good with kids and animals. They are completely without fault, that I know of, but i'm no expert. I can't even spell their name.
Hindu are.... Well i don't know anything about these people, but they are somehow simular, and dissimular to the Buhdhists. No-one's the same.
I'm not sure about any other religions, or cults, because I'm no expert on these things.
All in all, there are TOO MANY RELIGIONS. Some idiot oughta take over the world and establish ONE religion as it's official religion. Or we could concentrate on OTHER things. Like getting to other planets.
>----------Point being, the problem is malcontents---------<
I believe these new religions that tell it's members to kill themselves to please aliens/random god that's never been heard of before are called Cult's :P
Yes pardon me in calling it a religion. But its still sick, why would aliens want dead people. Have they thought about it before stabbing one another?
Seriously though, how can Atheism be a religion, that's like saying that not collecting stamps is a hobby. I've never seen any Atheists going to a church of science and praying to the great god Logic. I've never seen a holy book of Atheism that details the commandments or wisdom of the personified deities of Science and Logic.
Y'know what? I'll just copy this chunk of text from the TVtropes article on Atheism:
Atheists do NOT:
Worship Science, Richard Dawkins, Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection, Galileo (for being persecuted by the Church), and <insert anything science-related here>: Atheists do not worship, venerate, idolize or serve â" in the religious senses of those terms â" anything or anyone, regardless of their stature, existence or whatever. They may respect or even admire Darwin for his achievements as a scientist (similarly, Newton, Galileo, Curie, Feynman, Einstein and a host of others), but they do so without thinking he or anyone else was infallible or had all the answers â" or was even necessarily a nice person. (It's not as if claiming "Darwin was racist"* disproves evolutionary biology, for example.)
In the same vein, atheists do not "adhere to" or "believe in" science in the religious sense of those words. For scientific atheists, the scientific method is seen as an objective method to ascertain how pretty much everything works (or as much of it as we can figure out). It is not a dogmatic belief system. Indeed, the scientific method is based upon the principle that we do not really 'know' what is going on and we are constantly trying to learn more. The nomenclature for hypotheses, theories, and even laws is the statement that these are things which 'seem to work pretty well', not 'complete and immutable understandings'. Science assumes every theory will eventually be proven incomplete by a newer, more comprehensive theory. Therefore, saying things that put on the same level "belief in God" and "belief in science" is a sure-fire way to make most scientifically-minded atheists (which is to say, usually, the majority) really angry. Same with assuming that quotes from the Scriptures are worth as much as quotes from scientific journals (or more) during debates. For that matter, not all atheists think scientifically or agree with the Theory of Evolution. That said, the closest they'll come to traditional creationism is an unorthodox kind of "intelligent design" theory â" possibly directed panspermia or even naturalistic designers (cf. David Brin's Uplift series). Even that is quite uncommon.
If atheism is listed with christianity, and islam, or whatever, therefore it is a belief, a religion. The religion of nonreligion. Belief in a theory (in this case, there is no God, science) Is called a religion. And If I'm not gravely mistaken, it is oximoranic for Atheist to believe not to believe, because in believing that they do NOT believe, they do believe. IN what, I have no idea, but they believe in something, therefore giving them a religion, a belief. A "cult", if-you-will.
Sorry for the double post, but YES, you can have a hobby of not having a hobby. Being inactive can be a hobby, if you believe it is. Everything is true, if one believes it is. You cannot say it's NOT a hobby, because they pass the time by not having a hobby. And by repetitive reasoning, circular thinking, and ALOT of typing, I shall drive this into your mind. If yuo believe something is true, with your heart and your soul, who is to tell you it isn't true? If it's not a lie, and you eblieve it's the truth -- it is.
Seroph, you are absolutely right. Sadly, I have no idea what bigoted means, I think it has to do with a gigantic enormous supermassive ego, right? Right. Well, We're all cool. We're having a fun, educational heated discussion about atheists (ism). Funny lil' blighter's aren't they?
