Jegsimmons said:
when was the last time a witch hunt happened? and isnt that like....less than a percent of the total religious groups? hell, how many fucked up NON religious groups are out there doing the same thing but for another agenda?
i never blame the belief behind it, just the nutjobs who do it.
Well actually, in saudi arabia a man was put to death for the crime of "sorcery" just a few days ago. Im quite sure that a completely secular legal system doesn't really include punishments for "crimes" like sorcery, do you?
Anyway, im not saying that non-religious groups don't do stupid or fucked-up things, im just remarking upon the interesting detail that during some of the most EPIC instances of stupidity throughoput human history, religion has somehow always been involved in one way or another.
I think it's starting to become quite valid to suspect that something really... well "stupid" is integral to religion, as a system that is.
I'd like to stress the point once again that I don't think all religious people are stupid. I find it odd that adult human beings believe in imaginary friends, but I guess we all need certain aspects to make the world seem more interesting, whether you're an ardent believer in conspiracy theories concerning alien crashlandings and government cover ups, or divine imaginary friends. It's not necessarily stupid, if a tad bit excentric (in my opinion).
But my argument still stands, how come religion has always been involved one way or the other in so much stupidity and on such a grand scale that the stupidity actually has historical records?
Isn't it strange that some of the most heavily religious regions of the earth are also the most troubled ones? Take Jerusalem for instance, devout religious people EVERYWHERE, and it's pretty much a fucking warzone!
How long can you simply dismiss it as "coincidence"?