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Originally Posted by Jel
You think all religious people are like that? You think religion brings *nothing* but anger, hatred, and violence? Religious zealots (or the ones who would kill their kids if 'god' 'told them to') are a tiny, tiny minority of the peaceful, loving ones, just like hateful, fear-mongering, angry non-religious people are but a tiny fraction of those who aren't religious.
I honestly can't understand how people don't get that. People so overtly anti-religion wind me up just as much, and in fact probably more, than overtly religious fanatics  |
Christianity is generally touted as being one of the most peaceful religions, at least when compared with the muslim extremists. BUT, if we look at the teachings in the bible, we find that God is jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.
I'm a big believer in the NAP (Non-Aggression Principle, which is the belief that it's wrong to initiate force or the threat thereof against a person or their property), and when parents attempt to teach Christianity to children in a consistent way, it breaks that NAP with the whole "You must accept me, otherwise you burn in hell."
Holding beliefs that which you cannot substantiate is a very dangerous, slippery slope. We saw that on 9-11. We see that with homophobia, and sex itself.