[US admirer]

----"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction." - Blaise Pascal

"And, what fills the void in religion's absence?"-------


- reason, and if you require it- faith.

Religion on the other hand is divisive at best and destructive at worst. How many wars and how much persecution has religion fathered? Look around the world today... Jews v Muslims v Christians, protestants vs catholics, Sunnis vs Shiites.

I personally worry far less about a heathen Korean lunatic or even a godless China than about religious fanatics of any religious persuasion.

[Barnacle]

Religion on the other hand is divisive at best and destructive at worst. How many wars and how much persecution has religion fathered? Look around the world today... Jews v Muslims v Christians, protestants vs catholics, Sunnis vs Shiites.

I personally worry far less about a heathen Korean lunatic or even a godless China than about religious fanatics of any religious persuasion.

I consider your perspective slanted and naive. It totally ignores the historical fact that people form civilizations and in those civilizations are institutions including religions. What you said above could just as easily be said of governments and patriotism. It fits nicely with the Leftist philosophy permeating our media today. In any case, it is diametrically opposite of Conservative philosophy that this website, the Free Republic represents.

By the way. You wouldn't happen to be a Libertarian, would you?

[Earthdweller]

"I personally worry far less about a heathen Korean lunatic or even a godless China than about religious fanatics of any religious persuasion."

Are you saying that man would not have had war if not for religion? That is a childish fantasy shared by many liberals.

Man makes war and the organizations (whatever they are)take the blame.

If Europe and the ME had been/were completely devoid of religion the fight would be over territories or mistreatment of woman or human rights or resources or...blah, blah, blah.

And by the way...stay away from those lunatics of any type, they are all dangerous.