Sentences with phrase «religion as a catalyst»

Those who perform these mass murders / genocides are mentally unstable and use religion as a catalyst to manipulate, torture, and kill.

For all we know, he might have used religion as a catalyst to unite the different people on his cause.

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While religion is often used as a catalyst to rally the masses into supporting a war, the root cause of the vast majority of wars is the desire to gain control of the resources of another people / country / etc.

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.

There's plenty of reasons why I am a non-theist, but we aren't mad and starting to be more vocal in our opinions because you choose to believe; we're mad because 1) we're tired of having God rammed down our throats and 2) we're seeing the world go in an unhealthy, unsustainable direction with fundamentalist religion serving as an ever - increasing catalyst.