Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-28826152-20161221223809/@comment-29680750-20170104200048

Catfishperson wrote:

LysurusPeriphragmoides789 wrote: 1. Okay. So even you admit, religion has caused wars. It does more to divide than to unite IMO. Christianity is the most widely believed religion not because of the quality of its truth (if you can prove to me that Zeus or Poseidon doesn't exist, I'll probably be able to use the same method on the christian god), but because its believers wanted to spread it, some through peace, some through war, and even in modern day, often through threats.

2. If science and religion are independent of eachother, then why were Darwin's findings met with such outrage? The reason I follow science over religion is this: religion is about blind faith - it even goes against recent facts, telling you to ignore them, no matter the evidence, and you're threatened with hell if you are skeptic. Science is about constantly questioning your own discoveries, not accepting anything without evidence, and accepting that theories may change given new findings. Eventually, your conclusions become more and more concrete. Religion stayed the same since medieval times, in spite of new findings. Science is constantly evolving.

3. Seeing as he had no problem with drowning humanity in a flood, I wouldn't think he's have a problem with denying people of free will if it made them a better person. And while we're on the topic of the biblical flood, how was every animal species on earth fitted into an ark that was made from a house?

4. The soul thing depends on how you define the word. I'll ignore this, as I probably don't have the same definition of soul.

5. I'll let you see if you can spot the difference between rocks and arthropods *cough cough life*

6. So you believe in evolution. That contradicts genesis massively.

(Adding on to what Lysy said) 1. It is rare that a people has tried to completely exterminate another people for non-religious reasons. Also, when most religious wars were fought, populations were considerably less, and weapons of war much less effective. A difference in death count is expected. One could even put the ubiquity of Christianity today up to simple "luck," coming up in the right place at the right time.

3. He also killed an innocent child in every Egyptian family to make the Pharoh give up, instead of simply killing the Pharoh. As for the Ark, I think there are bigger "plotholes" than that that I could find in the Bible. On point 1. of both of these points I have to say I disagree. It is my opinion that the Religion is in many ways just an excuse. Humans seem to always manage to put up artificial barriers and want to get rid of anything not within their own. I think this probably predates religion. The people behind war, genocide and almost any other violent act are just human. Because to be human seems to also mean to be violent. We, like all life are programmed to do whatever we can to survive. Life goes on. But it is only humans who seem to fight in large numbers, with many casualties. Perhaps due to our "superior intelligence". To put it in short: It is not religion that is the problem, it is our species.