Do you believe that "whether its God or the Bomb, its just the same, its only fear under another name!"

Question

Religion has arguably caused more deaths and kept citizens in check than any display of might (ie the Bomb) has.

Answer 1

I disagree with part of your statement. If I said that God told me to stand in traffic naked, I may be serious in my belief, but God didn't really endorse my actions. Because someone puts a label of "in the name of God" on something, it doesn't mean that God actually agrees with it or made it happen.

I believe that religion does make people do some strange things. It is not your everyday follower. It is the people that are the extremists on the ends of the religious followers that give people the problem.

Answer 2

The bomb is real and so is God.

The bomb is dangerous and God is dangerous and religion is dangerous.

We were offered the bomb as a means of salvation from the other side's bomb. God and religion also offer us salvation in their own way.

So yes, there are analogies, but you should not take an analogy too far. God is not a bomb, and in most ways is not like a bomb. It is not the same.

Religion and the bomb have both been used for political control via fear, but again thet are not the same, and not all religions are the same.

Don't confuse analogies with real life. Real life is a lot more complex than you think.

Answer 3

You just answered your own comment (not a question) in contradiction.
You see, God is not a Religion. Religion was created by man. Any deaths (I don't know if your statement is true about "caused more deaths") made through religion were made by man. God didn't kill anybody, nor would he ever. The choice's that man made under their religous sect was just that, a choice. That choice was God given.
Why so many believe that God would subject his own children to something to awful, is beyond me. He is All loving. Would an ALL Loving parent kill the children he created OR demand that someone else do it for them? I have never heard of such a thing!!

Answer 4

Yes I agree. All religions have a "god" who is better/more powerful then any another "god" just like some people believe that they have the better/ more powerful bomb. So your statement is a good one.
Some people are so fearful of repercussions from their "god" for "sins" they commit.
So in theory that same fear would be in place for a bomb.
I mean no insult to those who are religious you are free to believe in what you wish.

Answer 5

Quite true really. Fear is used to keep the masses in check, fear is used to control them. The bomb, god, another terrorist attack, its all used that way. Religion has always been a means of controlling the populace.

Answer 6

Well the Atheists have stacked up a pretty impressive body count, unless you class Communism and Atheism as a religion?

Why hasn't Atheism produced a more humane world, since it values only this life and is not swayed by the foolish beliefs of primitive superstitions and religions?

However, the opposite proves to be true. Rather than providing the utopia of idealism, it has produced a body count second to none.

Recent documents uncovered for the Atheist Maoist and Stalinist regimes suggest a total of 250 million dead between 1900-1987.

These murders are all upon their own people! This number does not include the countless dead in their wars of outward aggression waged in the name of the purity of atheism's world view. China invades its peaceful, but religious neighbor, Tibet; supports N. Korea in its war against its southern neighbor and in its merciless oppression of its own people; and Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge kill up to 6 million with Chinese support. All of these actions done "in the name of the people" to create a better world.

Atheism's tendency seems to naturaly gravitate towards Totalitarianism rather than Freedom.

What is so strange and odd that in spite of their outward rejection of religion and all its superstitions, they feel compelled to set up cults of personality and worship of the State and its leaders that is so totalitarian that the leaders are not satisfied with mere outward obedience; rather they insist on total mind control and control of thoughts, ideas and beliefs.

They institute Gulags and "re-education" centers to indoctrinate anyone who even would dare question any action or declaration of the "Dear Leader."

Even the Spanish Inquisition cannot compare to the ruthlessness and methodical efficiency of these programs conducted on so massive a scale. While proclaiming freedom to the masses, they institute the most methodical efforts to completely eliminate freedom from the people, and they do so all "on behalf" of the proletariat.

A completely ordered and totally unfree totalitarian State is routinely set up in place of religion, because it is obviously so profoundly a better society than the 'poor deceived people' living in Countries which allow freedom of religion.

you cannot say anything about the existence or non-existence of God by comparative body counts. What people do in the name of religion is no worse than what people do in the name of atheism.

All it proves is that human beings are capable of unspeakable evils, regardless of their affections or faiths.

The Book of James says as much – that people use the cloak of religion to hide their greed and oppress one another. Atheist use cults of charismatic political leaders and worship of the State and it's Godless philosophy.

Freedom of thought, belief and expression have historicaly been much more likely to flourish in a Judeo-Christian Country than in an Atheistic one. After all, you don't see millions of people trying to immigrate to China, Russia or the totalitarian Countries of the Middle East in search of a better life!

Answer 7

For some religions God and bomb are synonomous

Answer 8

No, I do not believe this. God is love and perfect love casts out all fear. You don't know what you are talking about. Man's greatest fear is death and God removes the fear of death from man. If you knew the Word of God, you would know that many times throughout the Bible God says, "Do not fear."

Answer 9

The bomb does not provide rationalization for those that are killed by it. Religion does. Religion has a funny knack for saying that killing those who do not believe as you do is just.

Answer 10

Trust me the fear of a bomb will always scare me more than the wrath of a Cosmic Jewish Zombie that was his own father.