It is fairly easy as we all know to find examples of how religions and religious people have caused or done bad things in the world.
So this leads many to conclude that religion is to blame for all ( or most) of the evil in the world.
Now this thread is not a defence of religion, or even to say it is needed. But this ;
The problem with blaming all the evils on religion, is that it overlooks the real and underlying causes. And that is dangerous because it leads people to conclude they have found the problem and are dealing with it.. and when religion has gone or been disproved then the world will be a better place full of decent people living in peace. Therefore the real case of the world's problems is not given the correct attention.
Which is this;
religion has been created by mankind, by humans, religious teaching has been written down and propagated by humans. Religions themselves are populated and run by human beings Religious persecution and atrocities are carried out by human beings. Religious dogma and dogma in general is exists because humans brought it into existence.
So you have to look to blame humans, for even without religion, humans will still be humans. They will find another excuse to do all the same things for others reasons. And they do currently. If there are no other reasons then humans just go back to greed itself.
You see its in our genes... its why we are the most successful animal on the planet. We are programmed genetically to conquer- to expand. To be greedy, to take what us not ours. It is how we have taken the whole planet... through our aggressive natural selection.
So you see blaming all evil on religion, is like blaming murder on hand guns. Yes hand guns make killing easier but it is the human using the hanging that is too blame.
Yes religions make justifying bad things easier, but in he same way it is the humans who are really to blame.
So don't waste to much time blaming religion and spend a bit more time considering what we are as humans.
So this leads many to conclude that religion is to blame for all ( or most) of the evil in the world.
Now this thread is not a defence of religion, or even to say it is needed. But this ;
The problem with blaming all the evils on religion, is that it overlooks the real and underlying causes. And that is dangerous because it leads people to conclude they have found the problem and are dealing with it.. and when religion has gone or been disproved then the world will be a better place full of decent people living in peace. Therefore the real case of the world's problems is not given the correct attention.
Which is this;
religion has been created by mankind, by humans, religious teaching has been written down and propagated by humans. Religions themselves are populated and run by human beings Religious persecution and atrocities are carried out by human beings. Religious dogma and dogma in general is exists because humans brought it into existence.
So you have to look to blame humans, for even without religion, humans will still be humans. They will find another excuse to do all the same things for others reasons. And they do currently. If there are no other reasons then humans just go back to greed itself.
You see its in our genes... its why we are the most successful animal on the planet. We are programmed genetically to conquer- to expand. To be greedy, to take what us not ours. It is how we have taken the whole planet... through our aggressive natural selection.
So you see blaming all evil on religion, is like blaming murder on hand guns. Yes hand guns make killing easier but it is the human using the hanging that is too blame.
Yes religions make justifying bad things easier, but in he same way it is the humans who are really to blame.
So don't waste to much time blaming religion and spend a bit more time considering what we are as humans.