Religions are the TRUE weapons of mass destruction! it has been shown over and over again?

Question

If every one would keep their believes to themselves (between their creator and themselves) would this be a more tolerant world today?
what would it take for religious PPL to understand that religious collectiveness is achieving the opposite(hate and bloodshed) of what they preach????

salvation Steve - you are actually agreeing with me by that statement! Christian - Muslim - nothing new ,crusades all over again!

Answer 1

I am starting to believe this is true.

Answer 2

I wont argue with the reality that faith has been the source for most of the bloodshed interior the international yet i don't have self assurance that's in particular faith if we've been each and each of an identical faith or all non religious I heavily doubt all would be nicely all of us have different evaluations of each thing in our international such dramatic techniques will somewhat reason combating and conflict between the worlds countries and persons. In historic past many a conflict replaced into reason because of the fact of non secular purposes yet there replaced into constantly different components besides, money, land, cultural adjustments and so on its human nature to have different evaluations and regrettably it style of feels that conflict is likewise by ability of made of our questioning. only my opinion although of direction =)

Answer 3

Belief/faith/opinion if a personal thing. No one else should interfere with someone else's belief. But we all do it. Sometimes without even realizing it. Since belief/faith/opinion truly is a personal thing, then I guess it would be best to keep it to yourself, or at least not push others to your way of thinking.

Not all religious people are mad/crazy like the way you're speaking of. But the ones who think they'll do more good than harm (or no harm at all) will most likely never understand that "religious collectiveness is achieving the opposite of what they preach."

& That phrase kind of scares me. I absolutely abhor collectivism.

Answer 4

A better question is what would it take for people such as yourself to see that your brand of intolerance is no different than any other kind? You don't like religion and try to hang every war and problem of mankind on that particular little peg.

Sorry, but there are a lot more causes for war than just blaming it on religion. Man's own selfishness, unholy lust for power, and greed all factor into the reason wars are started as much as religion -- perhaps even more.

And you neglect to mention the thousands of charities that are run by religious organizations to benefit the homeless, hungry, sick, abused, and dying. I can think of four groups here in my own town right off the top of my head, and I'm sure there are more. These religious organizations help troubled teens, battered women, the homeless, victims of tragedy, the hungry, and the poor.

So step back and take a look at the bigger picture. Reasons for situations are seldom as easy or uncomplicated as you make them out to be. Blaming the world's problems on religion is like saying that somebody who got hit by a truck died because they had a hangnail.

Answer 5

You're right. If I can't say anything nice I shouldn't say anything at all. Although most wars were fought over land and money. Not the Almighty. That just one of the reasons, but not the main reason. Except for the Crusades. Inquisition...

Answer 6

Why does respecting our diversity always have to mean not being too different from each other? That's so counterintuitive to me. Sometimes humans fight, we obsess, we get self-absorbed, we get depressed, we self-destruct, we hurt others. Sometimes. But the solution to these things can't be to stop people from being human.

Watch the Christian Bale flick Equilibrium that explores what happens when society tries this experiment. Very interesting stuff.

Answer 7

I agree. How many wars, genocides, and major points are there in history that were not caused by religious intolerance?

Answer 8

there is a lot of good being done for the sake of religion as well. As a matter of fact, all good that has been done, is for the sake of religion/God.
It all depends how you look at it

Answer 9

If what you say is true then why aren't we fighting a billion or so Muslims? Instead of a few thousand?

Answer 10

Thus atheists should keep their atheism to themselves. Sounds cool to me.