Originally posted by uberhun
I will more then likely offend a lot of people here. So I will appologize up front.
Religion has always been the core of all that plagues this world. The solution for every religion was total conformity/or death. Heritics/infidiels. Pretty much the same thing. I have children, sent them all to catholic schools. Why? because the education and the base core values are good for developing minds. Non of the kids are confirmed. What is taught in the house is plain and simple a man wrote the book. Believe what your heart tells you, God is in all of us, treat people the way you want to be treated.
Makes life pretty simple. Non of this my God is Better then your God BS. I have found in my exsperience in life the less educated, are easily drawn to religions in general for soulutions to their day to day problems in life. My family teaches self reliance. This country was founded on Judaeo-Christian philosophy. In principal it works...which segways back to the begining of this thread. Dog fighting is wrong in so many ways as is torture. But in my heart I can justify torturing any religious zealot who is hell bent on killing me and my family because I eat bacon!:furious
First, I'm not offended, as your view on religion seems to be rather common today.
However, I disagree with a couple of your premises.
First, religion is hardly the core reason of all plagues on man kind. Man is the core reason for the plagues he (man) has endured, not religion. People often point to a hand full of events, through out all of time, and then claim, "See religion is bad." The same can be done (and is done) with capitalism, socialism, and communism.
Secondly, although not directly, it seems you imply that if people were "educated" and self reliant, they would not be religious. There has been many highly educated and intellectual people of "Faith", both in the past as there is today.
I personally know a fair number very educated people (PhD lvl) Some are "religious" some are not. Some are kinda flaky (religious and non-religious both.) The point is being "Religious" does not equate to "Un-Educated"
Best regards,
--Tachus