[at this rate, I'll never run out of questions to ask]
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/12/04/kaye.murdersuicide/index.html
By the way, a cult is a religion... even if you don't personally believe in it.
2007-12-04 05:03:59 · 9 answers · asked by I'm an Atheist 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I can swear I've heard the expression "religious cult" before...
2007-12-04 05:21:31 · update #1
ok, keep religion... but be prepared for the consequences
2007-12-04 05:23:39 · update #2
A cult is not a religion. Thats why they are two separate words.
But since you insist of believing it is...
Taking the consequences of one cult, and appplying them to all religions, is very much like watching a black man commit a crime, and then saying all black men are criminals.
You can't tar all religious people with the same brush, and to do so displays the kind of ignorance shown by these cults. There are some religious people who don't shove it down people's throats, and who are made better people by having religion in their life. A well-known example would be Mother Teresa.
If you really want to make a fuss, make a fuss about those people trying to integrate religion into politics. It has no place in politics.
2007-12-04 05:10:39 · answer #1 · answered by Meta 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
During the worst century of the Crusade (the 11th), historians place the deaths caused by religion was about 900,000 - Muslims, Jews and Christians.
During the 70 years of atheism in the USSR, historicans place the death toll at about 189 million. (Not counting Red China, North Vietnam, North Korea, and Cuba). The atheist get more that a 20:1 kill ratio victory over religion.
2007-12-04 13:11:25 · answer #2 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Religion is an excuse not a reason. Of course, McDonaldism
is the cause of all that is obese. That rotten Ronald McDonald is the Cult leader for that one and still people, even atheists, eat there, can ya believe it?
2007-12-04 13:11:41 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
You believe in a kind of fringe explanation -- which is okay.
There is no evil perversion of religion ( by evil spirits, by people acting wrong by free-will, etc.) and everybody who purports to worship God and seek truth is in fact. Ergo, all this crap comes from a religion working according to form.
WOW !!!
2007-12-04 13:09:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
...Finish your thought - more than what?
...Hitler? Stalin? Arsenic? Boiled okra? The atom bomb?
...And nope, I sure haven't read anything about it.
...You might want to do a re-count, since millions died in the WW1 and WWII, due to hunger, starvation, Hitler's and Stalin's annihilations of people, etc.
...What evidence do you provide for/against "religion"? And are you saying we should then wipe out religion - and replace it with what?
...Wipe out religion and faiths, and society will come tumbling down.
2007-12-04 13:19:20 · answer #5 · answered by carson123 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That's a wonderful thing:)
It shows that God wants to protect his obedient servants by odering them to kill off the doers of evil.
Edit- There are no bad consequences for following the strict commands of Allah The Almighty One.
2007-12-04 13:13:10 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
This is why I'm opposed to religion.
This is why I'm a Bible believing Christian.
Pastor Art
2007-12-04 13:09:19 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
nothing can cause more deaths than births. nothing again can cause less
2007-12-04 13:40:44 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
non-believers know this fact indisputably. it's convincing our religious counterparts (or mental midgets) these facts.
the electra complex (gender reversal of the Oedipus)
leave it up to the christians...
2007-12-04 13:07:54 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋