How does one explain the countless cases of people who believe in religion that have done equally or more horrible things? They just found some way to justify what they were doing and go around morality.
You need to ACTUALLY read the piece. It addresses your question near the end. I love it when people comment WITHOUT even reading the thing!
One really does not have to explain such people.
Just because some people violate the law that says "you are not to murder another citizen," or even the one that says "don't break into your neighbor's home and sexually assault his wife" doesn't mean there is something wrong with those laws. And there are few persons convicted of either of those crimes that will not insist to you that they are entirely innocent, law-abiding citizens.
People do not necessarily do the right thing just because they "believe" it's the right thing. Millions of people smoke cigarettes, overeat and abuse alcohol. Most of them will tell you they know they shouldn't be doing what they're doing. But they do it anyway.
There are evil people who cloak themselves with a religion, but that does not make them worthy of emulation. Judas was a disciple, but that does not make me distrust Jesus.
Hi there! First let’s get one thing out of the way. No one was ever burned as a witch in Salem. All those accused as Witches were hanged. The behavior of those who made the false accusations can be arguably called “not Christian.”
And the Inquisition? That was brought to you by the same hypocrites who brought you the sale of “Indulgences.”
The Nazis were particularly Anti Christian. Don’t take my word for it. If you search you can find Hitler’s rewritten bible. It takes out all those annoying references to Jews and puts the center of worship on the State where he believed it belonged.
We also have the Phelps family. Anyone who really believes they are Christians needs to pull their head out of their arse.
The Christians I see behaving horribly tend to be hypocrites and liars.
So what do you use to excuse your evil?
“How does one explain the countless cases of people who believe in religion that have done equally or more horrible things?”
Mainly by debunking them.
They are acting inconsistently with the tenets of religion and are condemned as hypocrites.
When 'science' is pursued in an amoral fashion, their are no consistent grounds for condemning such behaviour.
Cheers!