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Post #1197362

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CatBus
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Religion
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Date created
17-Apr-2018, 3:56 PM

moviefreakedmind said:

I definitely disagree that religion does more good than harm. I don’t know how you can come to that conclusion. Maybe a personal belief in a god can be a net positive maybe, but religion definitely not.

Basically because all the ills commonly attributed to religion have very little if anything to do with religion. War, genocide, terrorism. IMO that’s just mankind being mankind. People just put a not-very-convincing religious gloss over these things to add legitimacy/justification to the actions they were going to do anyway. Meanwhile religion actually brought us mass literacy (where’s Gutenberg without the Bible?) and science (Mendel, Leibniz). Yeah, religion leads to some bad things too, but overall, I’d say we’re better off with it.