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Originally Posted by sellouteater
first off i didnt mean to be a bully or a bigot i was just a little excited. what i meant to say is theres a lot of holes in relgion. and religion is the reason for a lot of bad shit i.e. sept 11, holocaust, crusades in the middle ages hate crimes. my other piont is that there is very little legitmate truth to there being a savior and if there was why would he let all this happen to the human race. I have a question for all the religios people if there wasn't the fear of hell and the promises of heaven would you care even half as much about god as you do now.
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you come across as pretty ignorant on this thread, to be honest.
firstly, of course there are holes in religion just as there are holes in everything if you want there to be. everybody knows that, and you pointing it out is just superfluous.
what you are forgetting, however, is that the drive to construct a god (or gods) is a completely natural and essentially instinctive thing for humans to do.
as a species we are desperate for answers and definitive explanations, and, as a society, we manifest explanations to satisfy ourselves. this has been going on since the beginning of humankind. it is a necessity for society. the need for a God/Gods to worship, appease, justify and project ourselves onto is instinctive. therefore, incoherant arguments that demean religion for what has happened as an (indirect) result of it is really quite meaningless and can be ignored on the basis that there is nothing anybody can do to stop it. if the need for a God had never existed humans would create other ways to justify persecuting each other.
it's not religion to blame, but humans.