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narf poit chez BOOM said:
Religeon is merely a system of belief in some sort of higher power, because of personal choice and sometimes personal evidence, even if there is no demonstratable, scientific evidence. It does not necessarily lead to totoleranism, or mass-murder, or the breakdown of rationality, or any of these other ridiculous charges that are routinely levied at it.
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That's what I thought too until I read this (also from the guy that made that website, I'm sure he won't mind if I quote him),
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Theological monotheistic religion, based on the recorded revelations of long-dead "prophets", is the worst thing that has ever happened to mankind. It has a natural tendency toward intolerance (someone who believes in a different god must, by definition, by denying the truth of my monotheism, so there is a conflict that would not exist if I was polytheistic), and it resists progress in all its forms by making ancient writings the ultimate and immutable authority.
In essence, scriptural religions are plagued not only with human flaws, but the human flaws of primitive humans from thousands of years ago.
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The message is from
http://bbs2.stardestroyer.net/Archiv...r=asc&start=50 . If you want to debate him on that point, go there, I'm not him. But after reading his stuff I do agree with a lot of what he says, and his forum is an incredibly intelligent and eye-opening community.
<edit> It should be noted that his forum isn't a kiddie forum. What I mean by that is that if you are a moron (as I was and still consider myself am, although I'm trying my best to beef up), you'll be quickly exposed and mocked per the forum's policy. That's what I mean by eye-opening -- I needed an eye-opener or I would have been a moron my whole life. Swearing, and even porn links. But as he said (I'm paraphrasing here), better to sacrifice civility than promote stupidity. </edit>
Brian