Sentences with phrase «religion was a bad thing»

I stopped believing in any sort of god long before I thought that religion was a bad thing (except that its claims were likely false).

Bering said: «I am by no means saying that religion is a bad thing nor that religious people are less intelligent.

Atheist can be insane as well however if you were to balance the damage to this world the scales would certainly show that religion is the worst thing that has happened to our species.

So the argument of this article is that not being a part of a major religion is a bad thing because those who don't aren't picking a «side», and because they lack a moral compass for self betterment.

We can conclude, then, that religion is a bad thing, which is used to control people via scary, fictitious stories.

Jeff Alberts says: August 30, 2013 at 7:47 am «We can conclude, then, that religion is a bad thing, which is used to control people via scary, fictitious stories.

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So how do you go from that reasoning to «Since it wasn't accidental then it must have been this ancient male diety named (fill in blank depending on religion) who loves me and knows me and cares for me and wants me to perform rituals that have nothing to do with morality like prayer, not eating certain things, sabaath and many more just because he said so, even though we have no record of him saying anything, just records of humans who wrote things down that they claim he said, but I want to believe it all so badly I will base my beliefs on no other evidence than «it just can't be accident».

There are worse things in this world than religion ladies and gentlemen..

The worst thing about any religion is the teaching that people should be happy with their lot in life because it's God's will.

The USA is broke and the lower the standard of living, the more religion you will see and the worst things will get.

the only thing worse than a candidate using religion to get votes are the retard followers voting for them.

religion empowers folks to do bad things as they have been told their god is superior to the others and is the true on..

They are reminders of the worst things that religion can inspire, which are probably the worst things imaginable.

@Matt, ``... I think they do things with that LABEL of disbelief but are actually acting out on a BELIEF that religion is bad, dangerous, and wrong.

That being said, I know that people will ALWAYS do terrible things, but hopefully by getting rid of organized religions we would make it hard for terrible people to geta footing and develop followers to spread the scale of those bad things.

These are very tho - rny issues we're talking about — a tangled mess of bad intentions, good intentions, misapplied intentions, and the whole range of psychological variations of mental illness, cognitive dissonance, and a bunch of other things not really complimentary to religions in general and to specific religions as well.

People of every race and religion have commited horrible acts, but as we know just because X % of group Y do bad things, does not mean group Y is bad or wrong.

In one sentence you state that bad people do bad things, then two sentences later turn around and claim that it is a religion that does bad things.

The worst thing that can happen to an authentic spiritual / religious Tradition is for it to become a civil religion.

I say we have had these religions for 2000 years and things have only gotten worse, maybe it is religion making things worse.

However, this is seen as a bad thing, and the aim of the Hindu religion is to escape from the cycle of reincarnation in order to escape from the universe to become merged with God.

Therefore, I'm lead to believe bad people do bad things, and good people do good things, regardless of religion..

@Shanna, it's too bad that more of your fellow believers haven't picked up on the whole greatest commandment thing — something that certainly transcends religion.

Albie if you think religion is holding this country back try living in Afghanistan or Pakistan the Taliban has these countries living in the literal stone age the thing holding this country back is greed and a mistaken belief in the Ayn Rand theory of «i got mine too bad about you if you're not careful i «lll have yours too»

The religion has made it that an otherwise good person, living their life, surrounding themselves with loving friends and families and doing charitable things can still be considered «bad» by religion because they aren't following dogmatic law asking them to alienate and pester other people.

I'm not saying there aren't bad muslims who do bad things, just as all other religions have their sinners, but should islam be understood and based off of the actions of those few people?

Some how it's felt that values, morals, virtues are not there in a secular world only faceless solid lifeless laws of men rather than what has been relayed by Holy books that calls for good deeds and reject bad deeds and to build a faithful societies, communities, nations since communications among nations or even among the nations of mixed cultures and beliefs... Laws or God and universe are to be prepared by some thing that is equivalent to UN but built on nations beliefs to achieve the code of understanding among nations but as can see now it is build on groundless bases if not of words of God to faiths... in addition to those non spiritual secular beliefs to make decisions of faith but at the moment the secular world make and take the decisions while the beliefs and faiths has to pay for it when it becomes a war between all faiths or religions outside your world, it would become back into your inside among the mixed culture and beliefs of the nation or nations under one country flag...!

You are confusing the fact that man is capable of doing bad things with the idea that religion makes man do bad things.

I'm pretty sure having someone intolerant of other religions as president is the worst thing for america right now.

no no no, i first engage them in a conversation... normally ending badly due to them not liking my choice of argument or tools i use in a conversation over belief... so in short i am norally the one insulted and left to think... which i believe is the same way children act when they hear the word «NO»... but i have had some great conversations with people over religion, its just a rare thing.

Also, blaming a religion that preaches to their people to be good to their fellow man, to love their enemies and to forgive people that have wronged them for people doing bad things is ridiculous.

Organized religion has been and continues to be responsible for some of the worst things on this planet.

Many twelve - step program followers (who abide by the twelve steps used in AA and other «Anonymous» groups) today make a distinction between spiritual and religious, as if religion were automatically a bad thing.

The main point is not to deviate from our religion and adapt bad things but to follow the good things, of not only one's own but other religions too.

My quarrel with the guardians of the establishment is not that these things are bad, but rather that the establishment leaders use artificial barriers, such as race and religion and ethnic origin, to exclude certain segments of the population from ever having the opportunity to enjoy these fruits of the good life.

It's ashamed how many bad things are done in the name of religion.

Jesus» religion was suffused with radiance and the whole New Testament reflects it, so that when I read such things as one medieval scholar said — «A young girl should never play; she should weep much and meditate on her sins» — I am sure that that is not only psychological nonsense but also very bad Christianity.

Irrational delusions are a bad thing, and organized religion is one of the very worse forms of it.

I also believe in it because despite the attempts many, no one has ever proven the Bible to be false And you say that, «religion and dogma can make good people do bad things,» what bad thing have I done?

Some atheists do believe very strongly that religion is and has been a very bad thing.

a justification process for those who ABUSE... thatis no reason to take religion out... so as for the living God... ok... so eternal life for the child is a bad thing to you huh?

There is one thing that is worse than religion and that is knowledge without wisdom, People who try to enter the courts of God without entering on faith are stuck at the outer courts never really knowing God.

Since religions teach morality, I think the mixture of morality / ethics and laws are not a bad thing.

They're what gives religion its enormous potential for danger, division, oppression, and all things bad.

The worst thing about religion is that it teaches its followers to pretend to know the unknowable and to be certain.

What is sad is that when any person or persons from any christian religion say these bad things all of us that are Jesus loving people are blamed along with them.Let Christ be the judge and just love your neighbor.There is mostly good Christians than bad ones!

If you non-religious people claim to be so kind and nice, then why are you saying bad things about people who follow a religion?

However, religion is an excellent weapon for convincing good people to do bad things.

Yet perhaps you might agree that insanity is a bad thing, and then we would agree on something that doesn't necessarily have to focus on your religion quite so much.

Yes, it does, and always will, but making war on religion — even on one of them — is the worst thing we can do, because the faith under siege would merely go underground.