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To: justa-hairyape
There is the underlying problem and why the thread was started. You believe that 'religion is evil'.

No, I don't. I believe that religion is irrational and that religion has been used for evil ends, and that some religious beliefs and dogmas are evil, but I don't believe that religion itself, universally, is evil.

That is due to the nature of man, not due to the nature of religion. Atheists can kill just as easy as the Pagan Genghis Khan killed.

No doubt atheists can kill. But atheists don't kill because their atheism tells them to. When some religious people kill, on the other hand, they do so because they believe that their god or their religion requires them to. That is the difference. And that religion-inspired killing and torture is evil.

195 posted on 10/30/2006 5:28:47 AM PST by WildHorseCrash
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To: WildHorseCrash
When some religious people kill, on the other hand, they do so because they believe that their god or their religion requires them to. That is the difference. And that religion-inspired killing and torture is evil.

So I think we can agree however that some religions such as Islam that condone and require nonbelievers to be persecuted, is flat out wrong. We should not however say that ALL religion is bad because Islam needs to be reformed. The problem with Islam was with its creator (a human who took guidance from an angel in a cave).

You do realize of course that a populist atheist could put forth a plan to rid the world of religion. He could get other atheists so enthralled that they become more concerned with the ends (no more religion) then they are concerned with the means (many religious followers would have to be killed). Now would that make the atheism itself evil ?

198 posted on 10/31/2006 5:06:03 AM PST by justa-hairyape
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