cant stand religion bashers

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Money itself is not evil, the love of money is the root to all evil.

Nope, it's stupid to you personally. And you feel the need to attack it because it makes you feel better about your way of life.

I can't help but disagree with this. The only reason I ever criticise someone's religion in a discussion is when they make claims of it being right - we simply don't know enough to make such a statement. I feel like they're being incredibly ignorant. How can you make a statement like that, but when questioned fail to back it up.

Now there are some people who can support their beliefs and state why they personally believe it to be correct, to which I have no problem. But than you have others who can't back it up and start trying to justify it through weak arguments. When I point out the flaws and it's painfully obvious they're wrong they just choose to ignore it.

It's not that they're religious that annoys me. Most just follow a religion because they were raised that way and when they encounter something that goes against their religion they simply ignore it or form a ridiculous argument that explains it under their religion. I hate the stupidity of that. It goes against finding the truth and growing. That's what annoys me.

If you say so.

Right. That old game.

I've never understood this quote given that it's so blatantly false. Plenty of people do evil things, such as serial killers, rapists, terrorists without a single thought about money.

If I could eradicate one thing from this planet, it would be religion. It is the root of all evil.

Actually money is the root of all evil

Because it gives people hope, strength, faith helps people get through grief, it gives people the fortitude to go on, it provides support for them and can give a sense of purpose and community. And im not talking religion here, I mean faith.

The world is full of belief in the intangible.

Faith doesn't have a monopoly on those things. You can't separate out faith and religion like that. The vast majority of people who "have faith" are religious. And religion, as we all know, has been and is responsible for immense evil in the world. If no-one who believed in God shared their beliefs with anyone else or let them impact their decisions, there would be no problem, but we all know that's not what happens.



Can you give me an example?

I seriously don't understand religion bashers the ones that don't really know anything about the religion and the people who follow the religion. I dunno it just gets on my nerves. does it get on anyone else's nerves

oh shut up that's your opinion

1.I never said it had a monopoly. Actually yes can, there are a great many people who believe in a deity but choose not to follow a particular religious order. And great good has also come out of religion. Yes the abrahammic faiths (as the most well known) have done wrong but they have also done right as well.

2. You want me to give you an example of something intangible that people believe in?

You said "the world is full of belief in the intangible". Give me an example of something intangible, for which there is no evidence, but in which there is widespread belief.

santa claus/saint nick/pere noel/La Befana. Hes intangible but children (and possibly some adults) believe in him most fervently.

That wasnt exactly hard and i dont see what you couldnt have thought it up yourself.

You can't be serious.

Why not? Its an intangible being that people beleive in. Not to mention a santa esque figure is widespread in many cultures (without being the widely accepted western version created by coca cola)

Fine.

Aliens. People believe in them but there is no widespread accepted physical evidence they exist. Ergo its an intangible belief.