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Originally Posted by Darkland
A good start? Sorry couldn't resist.
Anyway, there is nothing wrong with religion per se. I don't believe in nor like organized religion for many, many reasons. BUT... it is not necessarily the religion that corrupts the believer, rather the believer that corrupts the religion. Just as all things are corruptible, so too religion.
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Going to have you stop right there. What you're pointing out is a baseless assertion, because if your case was true, then every religious person would be a fanatic (according to our mentally ill patient POED). However, the fact that most people are
NOT fanatics, it appears that those who are, corrupt the religion and turn it into their interpretation.
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This, in the end, is why religion fails. The bible, written by primitive and fallible humans, interpreted 1,000's of different ways by fallible humans, divided and sub divided into newer religions by fallible humans, and quite expectantly corrupted by fallible humans equals a failed system.
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This again, is a baseless assumption. While I cannot prove to you the existence of God, you cannot disprove it and so it's a matter of belief. You're basing your assertion on a premise you consider a fact. I can easily say that secular humanism has caused a hell of a lot more problem than religion, and in the absence of religion you get shit like cults. However, this would be a fact.
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But to blame religion for the actions of these people is about as dumb as saying guns kill people when in actuality it was the unstable human using the gun that kills people. Whatever the tool is, that is all it is, a tool, an excuse for human behavior. How it gets used is entirely in the hands of, once again, fallible humans.
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This I totally agree with. Personal Responsibility trumps everything.