instead we humans have made it a dividing factor.
Do you agree, if not, why not!!
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Destiny.
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Do you agree, if not, why not!!
Well mate, religion is an enemy of mankind.
Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear. It is partly the terror of the unknown and partly, the wish to feel that you have a kind of elder brother who will stand by you in all your troubles and disputes. Fear is the basis of the whole thing -- fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand. It is because fear is at the basis of those two things. In this world we can now begin a little to understand things, and a little to master them by help of science, which has forced its way step by step against religions, against the churches, and against the opposition of all the old precepts. Science can help us to get over this craven fear in which mankind has lived for so many generations. Science can teach us, and our own hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary supports, no longer to invent allies in the sky, but rather to look to our own efforts here below to make this world a better place to live in, instead of the sort of place that the religions in all these centuries have made it.
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Religion is based on false assumptions!
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Religion unites us all....as in we all like to argue about it....see how we are all here in GS talking about religion...pretty much unity isnt it?!
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humans would use anything to divide themselves :) religion, sports, race, you name it.
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Do you agree, if not, why not!!
Religion divides people when acceptance of other religions goes down and one starts thinking their religion is superior to all others. As long as we believe in live & let live and do not impose religious diktats on other, it can unify people.
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Not the religion that divides us. It is us who divide amongst ourselves.
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Do you agree, if not, why not!!
religion did unite its followers, with time lack of understanding, selfishness, hunger-for-power, ego caused the divide in followers.
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Religion without continuous guidance can be very dangerous. By continuous guidance I mean, we should have religious gurus at macro & micro levels.
Do you agree, if not, why not!!
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Religions are meant to divide people. The more religions we have the more divisons there will be. So how could such a thing be holly.
Look at the atheists... they only come in one kind ..and the all belive in one thing and a lot of them are more human than most religious people. For intstance, charteristics such us tolearnce which is preached by all religions is mostly found in the atheists... I wonder why religious get offended if they are told God doesnt exist but on the other hand an atheist would careless if you tell him that God really exists.. Ironic!
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All "morality" in atheists comes from religions... besides they don't come in one kind, only considering "religion" then they can be 'one-kind' i.e. God-less.
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I wonder why religious get offended if they are told God doesnt exist but on the other hand an atheist would careless if you tell him that God really exists.. Ironic!
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Not really, tell the atheist that he is going to Hell and you will see him riled up ;). Besides, those who really understand their religion and follow it do not get offended if you tell them that God doesn't exist.
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No an atheist would respond ," What hell?"
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some atheist would, I agree, similarly some followers of religion will respond similarly too.... in short neither religion followers are from Mars nor are religion-less.
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Just to add something to what you are saying here, That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that religion offers a way out.
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If the holy books are mistaken in telling us where we came from, how can we trust them to tell us where we're going
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Very intersting....
How could one really devote so much for something that is beyond ones understandings... Heaven for instance... what is it?
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where ‘thinking’ stops, religion starts. non-sense, cruelity, intolarene, ignorance, all the negative thinkings and deeds are the base of ‘baseless’ religon
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nice to see some sensible guys here in this forum where mostly people are enjoing barbaric murder of akbar bugti and girls want to convert their boyfrieds to islam but they dont know if religion practiced in its original way ..she will be nowhere!
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brother my view is opposite…
religion with guidance is more lethal and catastotrophic…
i had few good friends…when they became religious…they started hating other people of df faith, became cruel to females …in other words talbaan…thats what lesss or more religion is…like ‘‘strike off the heads of nonbelivers’’ !!!