Sentences with phrase «worse than other religions»

How can we believe at all against the fact that historically our religion has functioned as an opiate for the oppressed and that it is, as a cultural phenomenon, neither appreciably better nor essentially worse than any other religion?

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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».

While this is a vile act — An act that spits on the beliefs of Anne Frank and the entire Jewish religion — one must ask, is this really worst than the thousands upon thousands of other Baptisms for the dead that the mormons perform?

It is no better and no worse than any other organized religion.

Finally, religion often aids men in behaving worse than any other ape.

Unless we learn to challenge our own beliefs the way we challenge others», whatever they may be can be no more than a blind faith at best or a delusion at worst, be that for or against religion (especially the puerile version of Christianity).

It is worse in other parts of the world where more Christians are currently being killed for their faith than members of any other religion.

most do and they give everyone else a bad rep but every «religion» does as well, i don't have any religion i just try to do what is right and help others i think these simple practices would help the world out more than anything else.

For me, anyone that smacks of «Christian» fundamentalism is just as bad, if not worse than their counterparts in other religions.

Communist evil, Niebuhr said, resulted from its monopoly of power (absolute power over other men producing evils worse than injustice), its utopianism (attribution of the source of evil to something outside man — private property), its faith in revolution (a substitute religion), and its dogmatism (ideology masquerading as science).

@Alias, Not that Islam is any worse than many other religions, but wasn't Aisha «six or seven years old when she was betrothed to Muhammad and nine when the marriage was consummated.»

It's probably way too many days later for anyone to actually read this, but I just want to say that joking about addiction is certainly no worse than joking about any number of other things, like religion or death, which people do all the time.