Politics, crime, all have opposites and can be managed, they' re temporary institutes that are open to change based on their nature. With crime we have a justice system and a police force to fight crime, we already have a system in place to deal with it. With politics we have a democracy (ideally). At least we can vote off the assholes we don' t like. Religions are authoritarian, we can' t vote them off.
Religion is not malleable in this way. We' re not supposed to question religion, they can say whatever they want. They' re not accountable to anyone, anything they say is automatically justified because that' s their belief system. What I' m talking about is so serious that people use the Qu' ran or bible (it doesn' t matter which one) to excuse their hatred for different classes of people. People love to pick on weaker people or minorities and things like the Bible and Qu' ran make it a whole lot easier to do so. " God hates fags" , we' ve all seen that one, or how about how women have been marginalized by muslims in the middle east. The Qu' ran encourages Pedophilia, their idea of Heaven is the 72 virgins. In these places you will be executed for not sharing their beliefs. You don' t think that' s dangerous? It' s a snowball effect, fanaticism breeds more fanaticism.
It' s all based on lies. They talk about Angels like they' re real. They use fear mongering to to push their ideas. I don' t care what anyone says, telling a kid about Hell is abuse. By the way Hell didn' t exist in early Christianity. Originally, the punishment for being a bad Christian was the idea that you had no soul and no afterlife. That wasn' t scary enough so they created the idea of Hell and started pushing the idea on kids at younger ages.
The manifest function of religion is to sedate the weak, poor and stupid. Why do you think the poor and prisoners are the ones targetted the most by religions? They' re ***ing crooks, and they get away with it. Churches still are tax exempt, rich people are " donating" their money to these dog shit churches to evade taxes.
No body steals from the poor and gives to the rich better than Religion.
Everything that is good about religion can be done better without it. You say they bring people together, no they don' t. They bring people of the same class together. That' s a very important distinction. I said the manifest function of religion is to sedate the weak, stupid and poor, well the latent function has proven to be a catalyst for racial and religious hatred.
Don' t get me wrong I was only joking earlier, and when I say kill off these religions I don' t mean to literally kill religious people. I' m talking about demolishing these institutions. And I apologize for hijacking this thread.
< Message edited by Agent Ghost -- 24 Jun 07 22:20:53 >