the murderers would have found other excuses if there were no religions. Maybe a lot of people of lower intelligence have been controlled by religion, and this control has discouraged them from committing individual murders, etc. I know I am reaching to justify religion, but maybe there is some good in the deceiving of people for the reasons just mentioned.
2007-12-08 11:57:47 · 12 answers · asked by JiveMan 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Of course its bad...It is the most evil, hatred causing, murderous, terrorising excuse for dominating the masses ever unleashed by man... 'God is great' they screamed as the killed all your people in the twin towers..'God bless America' said George Bush as he ok'd the bombing of Baghdad.. Religion has ruined nations and peace loving peoples down through the ages..I was always taught that hate was a wasted emotion, but I have learned to hate religion in all its hipocritical forms for what it has done to humanity..
2007-12-08 12:15:57 · answer #1 · answered by elimbah44 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I Like your sarcasm ! To start, religions were thought up by people, with a higher intelligence level, to help disadvantaged/non-intelligent, or simple minded, deal with accordance's, that could not be explained, i.e.; Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Floods etc. It was a way to control fear, by conjuring up the GOOD vs EVIL concept, was a way of keeping these people under control. A little research and an open mind, and you might even believe that UFO's do exist. But there goes that fear factor again. How would the average working man, raised on beliefs, forced upon him, react to a visitation from a "SPACE MAN" ? Orwellian ? So the ones that don't look like us, talk like us, or have the same belief's,(as the bible recounts) must Die ! THIS IS MANKIND. It's in our gene's. Maybe, these visitors are the ones that planted our seed's, and are just checking on our progress ? Maybe religion is nature's way of population control ?
2016-05-22 05:44:26 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A knife is a valuable tool that humans use to prepare food. If a person uses that knife to kill someone, who is at fault, the murderer or the knife?
Of course, it is the murderer. That person made a choice to misuse a valuable tool.
The Christian religion is a tool of hope. Throughout the Bible, God shows that He is a just God, and a loving God. God gave us basic instructions for life on Earth. Nowhere in there are Christians ordered to go forth and kill.
So if a person chooses to justify his sinful ways by misusing the Bible, it is not the Bible that is at fault, it is the person.
The Bible is not a mechanism of control, but one of hope. It is a guide to show us better ways to behave toward one another. These better ways are counterintuitive. Humans are generally quite selfish beings. We do what we want to do, and we don't thnk about if and how our actions affect others.
The Christian religion encourages us to go beyond our selfish ways and consider others before outselves. It encourages us to love one another, and use that love to encourage each other and hold each other up in tough times. How is this deceit?
2007-12-08 12:29:21 · answer #3 · answered by Barry F 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Uh, maybe some of those excuses could be for land, power, money, resources, control, etc. Isn't that what it is all about? Would you describe the leaders of our current wars as being more religious than RICH?
Did religion play a part in WWI, WWII, Korea, or Vietnam?
Stop being innocent and realize that wars are fought not for religious principles but for greed.
2007-12-08 12:08:47 · answer #4 · answered by ignoramus_the_great 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree that religion can be used as a control mechanism. However, some people just don't know what they don't know. God is Love is more than a cliche, it's an experience.
2007-12-10 08:49:25 · answer #5 · answered by shine_radiantstar 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The 9/11 hijackers did it for God. I'd bet that they would've taken the day off if they were non-believers?
2007-12-08 12:04:26 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, if you want to shoot somebody you might want to gravitate towards a gun. Why did the geaser who made the weapon make it? Because it was not as bad as we think but maybe blablabla...?
Maybe the suicide bomber ain't so bad afterall...it's like it ain't is fault if the emmer effen thing goes off!
2007-12-08 12:09:31 · answer #7 · answered by highthoughts 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You are trying to justify religion in this argument?
2007-12-08 12:10:57 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
millions have been saved to for the sake of religion too but you r right and i like how you put it together. Star for u!
2007-12-08 12:04:42 · answer #9 · answered by Ṣaḥābah . 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
People forget the human element sometimes.
2007-12-08 12:02:32 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋