Discovering Religion----> Why Organized Religion Is The Root of all Evil

[gangreen]

No, there aren't. As stated earlier, less than 10% of conflicts in the world have been caused by religion. Major or minor.



Well then, you need to actually list them and we can discuss them rather than painting history with a wide brush.



Actually, the most despicable acts in history were committed because people wanted wealth. See the Belgian Congo.​

10 percent huh, are we talking current or past conflicts. I would be interested to see this proof.

I still believe there is always religion as justification for their heinous actions like killing masses of fellow human beings. Which blinds the masses to allow it to occur.


Sorry to use a widebrush but Human History is a vast thing.

But Just to name a few


The Jews By Christians who blamed them for the deicide of Jesus . During the Crusades Jews were massacred because of this. This has been going on until it came to a peak in the holocaust.


Christopher Columbus and other European Conquering Explorers massacring countless natives in the Americas in order to gain wealth and justify it by saying that they are less than humans because they are not Christians.

9/11 was not over religion? Didn't Osama want the U.S. and Israel out of the holy lands. Wasn't the Quran supposedly distorted to justify the biggest mass murder on U.S. soil.



Again I am not saying they are fighting solely for religious bragging rights but throughout history we see Religion being used as an excuse to treat another human being well less than human.

Religion always fails as a moral safeguard due to its ambiguity which allows it to be distorted for evil. If the supposed word of a deity can be construed for evil then what is the point of having it

 

[Slaimon Khan Shah]

Islam (Submission to the one true God) is the path to eternal Paradise after death.

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

10 percent huh, are we talking current or past conflicts. I would be interested to see this proof.

Almost all of them in recorded history from about 8,000 BCE up until 2003.

War Crimes - The Encyclopedia of War - McGLYNN - Wiley Online Library

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[Dirty_Jerz]

Let me take Rape for example

Why does it feel wrong, were you born knowing it was wrong or did society tell you it was wrong. If rape was norm (society does not frown upon) that you grew up with, the likelihood that you would rape and find nothing wrong with it would be greater. Are we born knowing all. I personally don't think so.

What dictates how we interact with one another, is what we learn from negative and positive reinforcement.



Society tells you rape is bad therefore it is bad through a consensus. There are still some who rape knowing it is bad but alot more would do it if there were no present negative consequences for doing it and it was not frowned upon

as for your other point

Changing the story, hiding the truth, no major distinction.Why would one change the story other than withhold the truth of the original

Well, it is what is. I can't prove the original story was embellished to control the masses
(just a theory but you can not prove it wasn't either).

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Weren't the first Christians including Jesus Jewish who followed the teachings of the old testament or torrah and decided Jesus' teachings should be added to the torrah which spawned the new testament.

Also I believe Muslims consider the torrah the word of God given to Moses and follow its teachings along with the Quran.

when i was a child i wasnt worrying about rape or even aware of what it was and when i did eventually learn about it i didnt agree with it wether that be because i was forced into that thinking or not now that i am an adult i can definantly see how its wrong because i am capable of seeing how it isnt progressive and how it causes negative reactions

babies/childrens worldy knowledge is so small at the time they are really very innocent and dont see the world the way a grown person does who has lived through peoples deaths and seen all kinds of perverted actions and they dont have the discernment to for that matter and a good example would be a baby being breast fed - they arent thinking "damn you got some big ass tittys and they soft" they are just eating because they need nutrients



imo there is a big difference between changing the story and completely lying

you can change the story to a fiction book and it wont matter because it never was true but changing the story from what actually happened can have some pretty negative effects especially something like a rape story


there is actually proof that some stories have been changed or abandon to control what the masses do know and feel is right (this is the consensus you were talking about)


First Council of Nicaea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia




imo the "jewish" people are not even the real jews though and i think thats where this idea that being "jewish" is strictly religious but the real jews were actually a people born jew by bloodline so really a jew can be into the christian or muslim faiths


you probably could use the word evolution to describe how it all came about very very loosely but continuation fits alot better

 

[SumBlackguyz]

This thread again?

Religion is the root of all evil because things that you place faith is easily manipulated

 

[BlackZilla]

from what i remember ancient civilzations had calenders already and mapped the stars

They also believed that Apollo made the sun rise and set using a chariot

Or that if they died valiant warriors that they would be drinking and fukking hoes in Valhalla

That they needed money for the afterlife after being mummified.

Anything that they didn't understand/couldn't comprehend at the time they used God as means to explain it...like what happens when you die, or what makes the seasons change.

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As for the thread, I think it's more of a case of religion being used as a tool for control. But religion can also be used for good as well.

 

[Dirty_Jerz]

They also believed that Apollo made the sun rise and set using a chariot

Or that if they died valiant warriors that they would be drinking and fukking hoes in Valhalla

That they needed money for the afterlife after being mummified.

Anything that they didn't understand/couldn't comprehend at the time they used God as means to explain it...like what happens when you die, or what makes the seasons change.

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even if any of this is true or not that doesnt mean all religion was for was to mask the short comings of that centuries scientific advancement