need headings for arguments for my english oral. apart from the tv show, any1 else know where i can get some good info
2007-07-29 22:35:04 · 12 answers · asked by Brittany T 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
goto http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-iNR1N6c3aa8Dq25imtL5bDCOB2U-;_ylt=AsAmISifQeaRKDT6pnpX7AysAOJ3?cq=1 and check some of my answers to christians
2007-07-29 22:40:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion."
— Steven Weinberg
"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction."
— Blaise Pascal, (1623-1662),
"The most heinous and the must cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives."
— Mohandas K. Gandhi; (1869-1948)
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
— Eric Hoffer, (1902-83).
One of the most constant characteristics of beliefs is their intolerance. The stronger the belief, the greater its intolerance. Men dominated by a certitude cannot tolerate those who do not accept it.
— Gustave Le Bon, 1841-1931
Most believers would kill truth if truth threatened their religion.
— L. K. Washburn
Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.
— Alfred North Whitehead
To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
— Eric Hoffer, (1902-83)
It is possible to pull out justification for imposing your will on others, simply by calling your will God's will.
— Ruth Hurmence Green
What mean and cruel things men do for the love of God.
— Somerset Maugham
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
— Jonathan Swift, Miscellanies, 1711
It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.
— Ilka Chase
Your argument headings can be taken from here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_belief#Modern_reasons_for_rejection_of_religion
then here: http://www.jesusneverexisted.com/murderers.htm
My two "best answer" here also will be helpful:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Amxx5o14txgPX9GERY21TpTty6IX?qid=20070716170323AALL1Pf&show=7#profile-info-wSVUYRT6aa
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AqUbn75s9G7UagPwFOKiBITsy6IX?qid=20070728150043AAah7if&show=7#profile-info-b4b027e02286d21eb7cdfac1e4f49d28aa
2007-07-30 05:41:20 · answer #2 · answered by HawaiianBrian 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is not religion that is the root of all evil, any more than it is money that is the root of all evil. It is the Love of Religion that is the root of all evil, just as it is the Love of Money that is the root of all evil.
the Love of anything to the exclusion of all else, seems to cause the problems in the world. the Love of Liverpool Football club amounst the fans who clash with those who have the Love of Arsenal Football club. The Love of Christianity vs the Love of Islam. The Love of the US vs the Love of any other country.
Wars get fought over the Love of one thing over the Love of another. Get rid of that Love and surely the world would be a better place.
2007-07-30 05:41:38 · answer #3 · answered by whatotherway 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Spanish Inquisition.
2007-07-30 05:40:59 · answer #4 · answered by Windsong 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Heard a marvelous quote last nite. On an (The Australian) ABC religion show.
The fault is not with religion but with it's worshipers.
The notion of faith has positives. & not just as a method of socio-spritual control. (Napoeon's "Religion stops the poor from murdering the rich"). The strength of faith, the positves the benifits of hope & +ve thinking needs to be balanced with those (few) who using religion to justify hate, bigotry & violence.
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2007-07-30 05:44:14 · answer #5 · answered by Rai A 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Non religious people who have no God, who do not believe in God and who do not believe the teachings of God in the bible are the root of all evil or bad things happenning within the community. They are on the dark side following the wrong path.
People who are in religious category follows the teachings of God in the bible and have fare to God, so they fear to make bad deeds but instead good deads.
jtm
2007-07-30 05:45:40 · answer #6 · answered by Jesus M 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Religion is A root of all evil but Jesus is THE root of all good.
2007-07-30 05:42:46 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't know about the root of it, but it has certainly been the prime mover in many evil undertakings... need I list them?
2007-07-30 05:46:28 · answer #8 · answered by Socratic Pig 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I suppose the religious people forced the communists to kill 100 million people? The communists were atheists trying to wipe out religion, so I guess if there were no religious people then the communists would have had no reason to kill them.
2007-07-30 05:39:10 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Wow?, good luck with that!!!....
I wouldn't go that route, myself... because it is not religion that's the problem. The evil is within individual man. He is the one who has expounded on and formed religion...... There is no such thing as a religion creating itself.... Blame man.... whomever he is.....
Your sister,
Ginger
2007-07-30 05:40:46 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I agree.
Buddha said -- "Forget all religions. Find the truth"
2007-07-30 06:52:10 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋