To all christians

[SuF]

Great point. You see, religion isn't hurting anyone, and isn't trying to.

Radical Islamics. Crusades. Mayans. The Holocaust. Religion kills millions. It DOES hurt people. Many people. The world would be a much better place without it.

 

[pure skillzz]

I just skimmed over: http://rationaldreaming.com/2010/04/19/are-religious-people-more-charitable-than-non-believers/.

I will accept that religious people, on a whole, give at higher percents than secular individuals. However, this higher charity percent can be easily explained by a few factors.

1. Trusted, respected individual / group telling people to give - This would be a priest telling people to give to a cause. Since he is a trusted member of a community, the church, and people look up to him, they are more likely to donate. Secular people, missing this community, do not get the same amount of pressure to donate.
2. Peer pressure - You don't want to be the only member of your Church that doesn't give do you?
3.

I'l stop there. The religious part of religion isn't what makes people donate, and thus, the religion itself really has no role to play in it.

What does that matter? The point of the matter is the churches are the ones to take those steps to organize these events for the greater good. All those things were done for the greater good under the churches name.

 

[Kleenex]

Radical Islamics. Crusades. Mayans. The Holocaust. Religion kills millions. It DOES hurt people. Many people. The world would be a much better place without it.

The Holocaust?

 

[Jimmy]

The Holocaust?

While I don't think it would be entirely fair to say that the holocaust was an event whose sole cause was religion, religion did play a big role in it.

"I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord"
~Adolf Hitler

 

[▌WeÅ¡ ▌]

1. If God is full of Love and care, why does (s)He let children die? I would understand if God punished only people who've done something wrong, but let's say that the child dies before getting born, what the reason behind that?

2. Define "Hell"?

3. Why do you believe? ( in God )

4. Again, if God is loving, why does (s)he require us to complete a "test" before proceeding to heaven / hell? After all, we could end up getting in Hell. Why does God let that happen?

1. There was the a little bit of devil inside of each and every one of them.

2. Earth.

3. He makes G.O.O.D Music. (Kanye)

4. You let it happen, he sends you to your proper destination.

 

[OneEyd]

People will use religion, distort it, to bend people to their will. People just need to remember the basics of what the religious texts are actually teaching, again the morality, values, and ethics.

Most religions have some sort of concept of self-sacrifice.

 

[BloodTornado]

I've often asked the same questions to Christians and Catholics, OP, but I never get a valid response. None of them can answer it. They always reply: "I do not know, but I will know once all the world's knowledge is given to me by God in heaven after I die."

 

[Kleenex]

While I don't think it would be entirely fair to say that the holocaust was an event whose sole cause was religion, religion did play a big role in it.

"I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord"
~Adolf Hitler

I know religion had a part in it, but can you really say it was the Jews' fault that Hitler hated them?

 

[Ozaki]

I know religion had a part in it, but can you really say it was the Jews' fault that Hitler hated them?

I think he was referring to Hitler's belief (or at least claim) that he was 'fighting for the Lord'.

 

[Im Fresh]

Religion has never made sense to me and still doesn't which is why I will continue to be an atheist.

 

[Itz Me]

Great point. You see, religion isn't hurting anyone, and isn't trying to.

The Crusades- The Holy Wars

That is one example of the hundreds of wars fought over religion.

 

[pure skillzz]

The Crusades- The Holy Wars

That is one example of the hundreds of wars fought over religion.

You can't possibly base a religion, or any group/organization, off an event that happened 700 years ago.

 

[Itz Me]

You can't possibly base a religion, or any group/organization, off an event that happened 700 years ago.

I didn't, I'm just saying it brings trouble. What about radical Muslims?

The KKK? They are based on Christianity.

 

[Sanctuary]

I didn't, I'm just saying it brings trouble. What about radical Muslims?

The KKK? They are based on Christianity.

Based on doesn't make it Christianity. They've taken something good, and twisted it to what they've wanted it to be. It's not comparable.

 

[Kleenex]

I think he was referring to Hitler's belief (or at least claim) that he was 'fighting for the Lord'.

But still, it's religion's fault that Hitler misunderstood?

Based on doesn't make it Christianity. They've taken something good, and twisted it to what they've wanted it to be. It's not comparable.

EXACTLY.

 

[Ozaki]

But still, it's religion's fault that Hitler misunderstood?

The point is that religion was and is the cause of countless wars and deaths.

 

[pure skillzz]

The point is that religion was and is the cause of countless wars and deaths.

And the cause of countless lives saved.

 

[i Maax i]

The point is that religion was and is the cause of countless wars and deaths.

And religion will be the cause of countless wars and death. Religion creates a "virtual" difference between human beings and they hate each other because they don't believe in the same thing...

 

[Ozaki]

And the cause of countless lives saved.

I'd love to hear some examples.

 

[Kleenex]

I'd love to hear some examples.

All the people going to Heaven for starters.