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Yes, It is. It gives people something to live for. It's not the only thing that does, but still.
Also, having a religion stops you from committing murder or lying or cheating on your wife. People
need a deeper guidance than law to help them do the right thing in life. |
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Religion is great. It gives ppl faith in things. I am catholic and i believe in god which gives me
faith to do things. |
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For the most part it is good. We don't see all the good that it does in the lives of average
people.
If you look at what atheism has achieved you can look at Fascism, Nazism, Communism, Socialism.
Look at STalin, Hitler, Ho Chi Min, Mao Tse Tung, countless other genocidal dictators. |
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Religion is good for some and not so good for others. I think we need to remember that there is a
separation between Church and State. No one religion holds power over another or over others in the
United States. People are given the freedom to choose any side or practice any belief they wish as
long as it is within the boundaries of our laws. Religion itself is not to blame for many of our
problems in the world. People are to blame. Radical Islam for example wishes to wipe out all
Christians and Jews and anyone else who does not believe in their religion. I strongly feel that
too many people blame religion for too many problems. Power is the issue here. Wars over land,
oil, technology and political ideologies cause more problems, in my opinion, than religion. We all
have the right and freedom to believe in whatever we want to believe in, that is the beauty of
living in America. If I choose to be a Christian, that is my right. I would never look down upon
someone or start a fight with someone for disagreeing. Religion has taught me to take
responsibility for my actions and to place blame on myself when I have wronged others. Just because
religious people mess up, it doesn't mean that they do it because they feel the devil is tempting
them. There is temptation for all walks of life. Whether or not you give into that temptation is a
sign of how strong your morals are, and how strong your will power and mind is. There have been
many religious wars in our history, but the blame is to be put on the people behind the religion,
not the religion itself. I guess I am kind of in the middle on this debate because there are so
many people that think that their way is the only way and that if you believe in something, then
there is always an opposition out there to attack you with their beliefs. Who really knows the
truth? Religion? Science? You or me? I think we should stop placing blame and start working on
accepting our differences. |
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Religion can be very positive, or it can be very bad. If your religion leads you to honor your Gods
without forcing your practices on others, if it allows and even encourages you to learn and to keep
your eyes and your mind open, if it leads you to be a better steward of nature and to contribute
positively to your community, it's a good thing. It affects the life of the religious one
positively. It should not hold a position of authority, though, as in government. |
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Yes, it gives people hope and faith and that's healthy. I DON'T THINK IT SHOULD HOLD POWER IT SHOULD
BE FREE WILL THOSE THAT WANT IT CAN HAVE IT. |
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Religion is the leading cause of death. |
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At best, religion is a waste of time that accomplishes nothing. If you're going to put your hands
together, you might as well twiddle your thumbs as pray.
At worst, religion is and has been the excuse for the worst atrocities in human history - murder and
genocide (both bodily and culturally), theft of land and wealth, etc.
Religion is almost always the latter. Aside from the Baha'is and Quakers, I can't name a religion
without blood on its hands (and even in the case of Quakers, that's a dubious statement).
For those who want to do something productive instead of something closer to masturbation, on the
same day as the "national day of prayer", there is the "Gift Of Life Day" where atheists,
secularists, and anybody with decency can go down to their local blood band and donate a pint. It
will do a lot more good and save more lives than any amount of "prayer".
Edit:
I see another lying godbot is on the "for" side.
As Bertrand Russell once noted, the reason Christianity and communism opposed each other so
strenuously wasn't because of their differences. It was because of their similarities.
And another godbot posts a made-up statistic with no evidence. But then, his religion has no
evidence, so for him to "think" that is an "argument" does not surprise. |
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A belief in a god contradicts reason and creates people who don't take responsibility for their
future. It gives people false hope and really doesn't seem to "fit in" with a society that is as
developed as we are. |
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The story of Jesus can be seen throughout the ages by means of other supposed gods who share
identical features such as; all born on the 24th December, all had the 3 kings bearing gifts etc all
were crucified and all rose again. If this is the case, who do we believe when each religion states
"you shall worship the one and only god". The Bible which contains both the old and new testament in
which westerners read contains the same information as the holy book that the Muslims read minus the
new testament, yet we are supposedly at a holy war with each other forgetting the fact that we share
an almost identical holy word.
In terms of war... How many countries have gotten away with using the 'Holy wars' as an excuse to
commit acts of Imperialism? Most well known is Israel... No one is stepping in to assist the poor
Palestinians in this fight, cos we all retreat whenever its a "holy war" as we are scared of being
called descriminators against Gods "chosen" people.
When was the last time we witnessed a miracle from god?? |
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Religion is the enemy of humankind. Our leaders go around the world mindlessly touting the virtues
of democracy as if it was some magic restorative that could bring any third-world country up to the
standards of the civilized world.
If we study history, though, and ask how it was that Europe and its colonial offshoots came to
dominate the world, it's perfectly clear that democracy has nothing to do with it. It was only in
the 20th century that these countries became fully democratic by granting voting rights to women and
ethnic minorities. Yet they had already risen to dominate the world, to push out the frontiers of
human knowledge in almost every sphere, long before that.
The key difference between Europe and its offshoots and the rest of the world was not democracy, but
secularism. Europeans had freed themselves from the vice of superstition. It was this which allowed
them to achieve great things. Even if they still nominally believed in some system of superstition,
they did not allow it to dominate their lives. For them, it was a marginal affair. Instead of
preaching democracy, therefore, our great leaders should go around preaching atheism. |
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Religion teaches people not to take responsibility for their own actions, instead blaming things on
"the devil" or "God's will"; it teaches people not to question their beliefs, but to believe
blindly; it teaches rejection of reality in favor of a comforting fantasy and it divides people on
the basis of what imaginary friend they worship. There isn't anything positive that you can get
with religion that you cannot get without it. |
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Religion, since it's onset has done nothing but set man against man in an unprovable often bloody
battle of ideology. If there is a god or gods surly this was not their goal and organized religion
in this sense should cease to exist. You should not need a church to communicate with God and it is
the organization of religions that create atrocities like the crusades. |
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