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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (229429)8/15/2013 10:04:42 AM
From: epicure  Read Replies (3) of 542455
 
Never do men do evil so cheerfully and so thoroughly as when they do it in the service of religion.

Religion allows people to quickly sort out "the other". Most of the Jesoids I have met in this country are very compassionate, for members of their churches- not so much for other folks, unless they are engaged in the process of evangelism- in those cases they are more like a used car salesman with a new mark.

Religion makes people tough in suffering- as anything that concentrates the mind out of the body will, but it also makes people resistant to actual, real, extrinsic truths, because focusing on the unreal can have some pretty negative consequences, and it comes to rational thought.

The ideas of Christianity, with it's "dominion over the Earth" may very well be the reason human life as we know it ends on this planet. Christians are not particularly good stewards of this planet. And why should they be? They're waiting on the rapture. Why should this marvelous little planet matter? It's just here to use up, and wad up like used toilet paper when they're done with it.

The skeptics have a lot more to do with humanities humaneness than the religious do. I'd rather have my fate in the hands of skeptics than a religious, any old day.
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