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Just watched this film, do people still think religion is a force for good?

Atheists unite, keep up the fight. Religion poisons everything.

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[color=cyan]scanini[/color] wrote:Just watched this film, do people still think religion is a force for good?

Atheists unite, keep up the fight. Religion poisons everything.
I sincerely hope this is satire.


But to answer the question, yes, people do.
I'd just like to put it out there that crazy people will be crazy whether or not they think a big guy in the sky looks out for them and their interests.

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AkiThePirate wrote: I sincerely hope this is satire.

But to answer the question, yes, people do.
I'd just like to put it out there that crazy people will be crazy whether or not they think a big guy in the sky looks out for them and their interests.
Seconded.

No one particular group has a lock on mental illness - except that group that constitutes "mentally ill".

I'd be willing to wager there's some'll tell you I'd fall into such a group. I ain't so sure I care :)

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I never said the religious had a monopoly on mental illness, although i think belief in a god is a form of it.

It takes religion to make good people do bad things, i think the hijackers had complete faith in what they were doing, that they in their minds were sane and doing a good thing.

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I said it before, and I'll say it again:

There is no such thing as "religion." There are only specific religions.

It depends on which religion we're talking about, and even which sect or interpretation of THAT religion. Some religions are toxic, and some aren't.

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scanini wrote:Just watched this film, do people still think religion is a force for good?

Atheists unite, keep up the fight. Religion poisons everything.
Ha ha, you made my day.

I would say that the major religions in the world do not poison everything but rather a small minority from the religions cause the poison.
scanini wrote:Do people still think religion is a force for good?
Of course, look around you! There are countless religous organizations that do good in the name of a higher being.
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I don't understand why people cannot see that we all have beliefs and that it is our beliefs that cause this immorality. IE: Performing immoral actions is because of what we believe rather than just religion.

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scanini wrote:I never said the religious had a monopoly on mental illness, although i think belief in a god is a form of it.

It takes religion to make good people do bad things, i think the hijackers had complete faith in what they were doing, that they in their minds were sane and doing a good thing.
No it doesn't. I takes bad authority figures and any kind of ideology at all to make good people do bad things. That is all. That ideology does not have to be religion, and frequently hasn't. Nationalism was a huge one in the first half the twentieth century. If you actually got atheists to unit in order to stamp out religion or some such, I guarantee some normally 'good' people would do plenty of atrocities in the process.

Religion can be used as a tool by bad people to get good people to do bad things. But it can also be used as a tool to get bad people to do good things. It can be a force for good, but it can also be a destructive force. Which it is depends entirely on a case by case basis, often with the case being a singular individual.

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