Religion should have been a unifying factor

[saavan]

Re: Religion should have been a unifying factor

@Cher

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.

where ‘thinking’ stops, religion starts. non-sense, cruelity, intolarene, ignorance, all the negative thinkings and deeds are the base of ‘baseless’ religon