People baptized Christian have slaughtered more
people than all other religions, plus atheists, combined.
Christianity has tortured and murdered more
people than any other religion.
Not exact matches
That would be attracting
people in the whole community with no agenda
other than talking about
religion and eating and meeting new
people, etc..
But yea,
religion does make
people hate for no
other reason
than it says it somewhere in their holy book.
Please, are the gods so stupid that just because an alive
person claims a dead one is now a different
religion said god would have to throw them out of their old
religion heaven and send them to the
other heaven??? Really, some of you are more obsessed with dead
people than the ones living.
My christian
religions have successfully killed more
people in history
than any
other single group.
No
religion speaks for any
people other than its own members.
All those
religion books that were written thousand years ago by
people who had no idea about
other cultures or how could they make sense one thousand years later are no better
than cartoons.
But it's nice to see religious
people are bigotted about things
other than religion too, like
other nationalities.
But it's it's a heck of a lot more likely that
people raised with
religion will leave it
than the
other way around.
Michael «As a gay man I appreciate there efforts and support, but I think putting up this sign isn't really the best way to get through to
people, all it does is create more hate, intolerance, and separation, I am not a christian but I am very spiritual, and putting up this sign implies that all gay
people are atheists which is the furthest thing from the truth, I have no problem with
religion, I have a problem with those who use there
religions to control and hate
others, same applies with atheism, if you don't want to believe in anything
than fine, just don't push your non beliefs on me.»
I am for the elimination of hate, fear and control,
religion is just the catalyst that
people use to hate, fear and control, getting rid of
religion won't solve the problem, its like putting a band aid on a severe cut, its temporary, and it just hits the surface, instead we need to go deeper
than that to the root cause, I know lots of religious
people who don't hate, fear or control, there are also many beliefs such as paganism, Buddism, Taoism, which doesn't use hate fear, and self righteousness to condemn
others, I think if maybe more of the most major
religions followed there teachings then we wouldn't have as much problems as we do.
People should practice their
religion at home or at their church and leave it out of the workplace
other than setting a good example of honest behaviour.
Just because there were (likely) more «Christians»
than followers of
other religions, doesn't give them the right to display any symbol in a more prominent fashion
than those of the
religions of any
other person that died in that event.
As a gay man I appreciate there efforts and support, but I think putting up this sign isn't really the best way to get through to
people, all it does is create more hate, intolerance, and separation, I am not a christian but I am very spiritual, and putting up this sign implies that all gay
people are atheists which is the furthest thing from the truth, I have no problem with
religion, I have a problem with those who use there
religions to control and hate
others, same applies with atheism, if you don't want to believe in anything
than fine, just don't push your non beliefs on me.
In my opinion, and the opinion of many
others,
religion is nothing more
than a tool, created by mankind (not suggested by god) thousands of years ago to do nothing more
than control
people through force and fear.
An all loving
religion has murdered more
people throughout history
than any
other religion.
Christendom: I think that Christianity as a
religion, which purports to call
people to follow Jesus, but uses money, power, and political prestige to force «Christianity» on
others, is nothing
other than the adoption of all the things which Satan promised Jesus in Luke 4, but which Jesus turned down.
I do not know who these rather shell - shocked former practitioners of identity politics might be or what makes them into
people who could be receptive to the lessons embedded in Moses Mendelssohn's philosophy of
religion and who could apply them to
religions other than Judaism.
He conveniently overlooks certain
other considerations favorable to socialism; when these considerations are given their due, even some practical
people unafflicted by the need for a secular
religion will find the alleged superiority of capitalism something less
than obvious.
18th April The Corriere della Sera assistant editor Magdi Allam, whose controversial Easter Vigil baptism by the Pope we reported upon in the May edition of this column, has stated that «the
person who influenced me more
than any
other in determining my conversion to Catholicism was certainly the Pope, Benedict XVI, in indicating that the indissoluble union of faith and reason is fundamental to authentic
religion.»
This is not quite the same as answer number 2, because it suggests that for a given
person, one
religion might be better
than the
others; but for different
people with different histories and different needs, different
religions might be more appropriate.
Another day of
religion marring the world for no
other reason
than that religious
people believe in something that just is not there.
too true; you're right, we are holistic
people in a holistic world living holistic lives and political theory,
religion, ethics, behavior, psychology, these and many
others are all so inextricably intertwined with each
other that it may be better to think of them as different views of the same object rather
than distinct objects that are inter-related (using «object» here, of course, metaphorically)
Conversion therapy is hatred and bigotry dressed up in religiousity and made palpable because that
religion has made
people desperate to become something
other than who they were born to be, stigmatizing them and calling them filth until they can no longer stand themselves so much that they beg to be made clean.
everything in the universe evolves, not only life forms but also memes,
Religion is a meme so it also change in conformity to its era or time of its conception as faith.Because in pre scientific times thousands of years ago, the scientific method of approach or philosophy has not existed yet, myth or merely story telling is considered facts, The first
religion called animism more
than 10,000 years ago believed that spirits or god exists in trees, rivers, mountains, boulders or in any places
people at that time considered holy.hundreds of them, then when the Greeks and Romans came, it was reduced to 12, they called it polytheism, when the Jews arrived, it was further reduced to 1, monotheism.its derivatives, Christianity And Islam and later hundreds of denominations that includes Mormonism and Protestants flourished up to today.So in short this
religions evolved in accordance to the scientific knowledge of the age or era they existed.If you graph the growth of knowledge, it shows a sharp increase in the last 500 years, forcing the dominant
religions at that time to reinterprete their dogmas, today this traditional
religions are becoming obsolete and has to evolve to survive.But first they have to unify against atheism.in the dialectical process of change, Theism in one hand and the opposing force atheism in the
other, will resolve into a result or synthesis.The process shall be highlighted in the internet in the near future.
People of
religions other than Islam who speak Arabic refer to God as Allah, even those Christians in Arabic speaking countries.
But in my experience, some of the most forgiving, kind, and generous
people I know are of some
religion other than Christianity.
Having said that, there have been wars waged between
religions claiming «my imaginary friend (God) is better
than yours»... I feel like as a reasonable
person, I am above that, and I wont get into emotional responsiveness that can incite anger in
others, leading to an unproductive discussion.
I've heard these very things said by those who are on the
other end of the
people who use
religion and politics to enrich themselves, give them power and authority over their fellow human beings and draw attention to themselves rather
than to God.
I can not fathom how the writer of this piece and some of the
people he quotes could possibly Interpret those two statements of Jesus as
other than an admonition to keep
religion out of politics.
The more accurate description of these results is to say that «religious
people are more ignorant about
other religions than non-religious
people».
Off the cuff, I do think that
religion has a lot to do with encouraging an elitist, critical, condemning attitude in some
people, especially the type of
religion that causes one group to speak and act as if they were closer to God
than every
other group.
They also have faith in their own personal subjective experiences that
people of every
other religion have, if they are all right how is that different
than they are all wrong?
This man did nothing but teach
people about a
religion other than the one forced upon them from the day of birth.
It is that Atheist, just like the
other Religions, feel that if they just present their arguments to
people than they will automatically convert and those that do not must be mentally ill or just simply evil.
At the end of the day, those
people who can accept and respect that
others think differently
than them, and can realize that making generalizations about a race /
religion / philosophy truly makes you ignorant, those are the
people who are truly intelligent.
Still, a
person's chosen
religion isn't any more right or wrong
than the dozens of
other ones they've rejected, because they're all made up.
I have since noticed that
people on a spiritual path of intention rather
than religion pay far more attention to how they manifest in their lives an ethic which affirms life, how they behave in terms of respecting the sacredness of the Earth and
others in it.
The problem is that organized
religion is as much political animal as any
other human convention involving more
than 2
people, and spiritual, thinking individuals are intelligent enough to know that churches / mosques / community reprogramming centers actually have very little to do with what one actually believes...
More
people have been killed in the name of
religion than any
other issue.
DO the math, more
people have been killed or died in the name of some obscure god or
religion than any
other single reason in the recorded history of mankind.
It is like listening to a right wing fanatic scream about all Muslims being terrorists, and hating
religions other than their own because they met one
person who was an idiot.
All
religions revolve around the same «god», so in order to coexist peacefully, please show some respect and appreciation for
other people that are different
than us.
NOT sorry to disapoint you but MY
religion or spirituality is NONE of your business and suits me just fine, makes me a better
person, more accepting of
others, more kind to my fellow earthbound souls, more respectful to mankind and morther earth
than all
religions combined who unfortunately have over 2ooo years of evidence of horrors committed against each
other ALL in the name of the religous organizations you want me to join??? I think I will stick with my smorgasborg of this and that spirituality.
So for
people of
other religions following scriptures
other than Quran, Allah has pre-planned punishment.
Perhaps
people use their
religion as another means to promote their polical party rather
than the
other way around.
People are always talking about how «More murders have been committed in the name of one
religion or another
than any
other cause», but they fail to talk about all the pointless ones that happen ALL the time for reasons that have NOTHING to do at all with
religion.
People in
religions other than Christianity have experienced them... but, they went to their god's heaven or hell.
I prefer to be treated the way I treat
other people, which should be
religions number 1 goal rather
than trying to save
people from supposed eternal damnation and spread fear to control mass amounts of
people.