Free For all - Open Discussions and DebatesCavemen and/or primitive tool usersThis is simply your opinion. There is not a single verse in Scripture that supports what you wrote. Questioning God is part of the human ego and God understood this and said: "Come let us reason together". God expects, even demands we use knowledge and wisdom not superstition and appeals to fables to understood Him and His purpose. Psychology is a pseudo science that makes decisions based on less than scientific principles, so I find your appeal to psychology in your rational view of man a bit odd. Galileo, Pasteur, Mandel, Newton, and a plethora of science icons were men of devout faith; a fact atheists choose to ignore in their efforts to obfuscate history in support of their "rational" and "logical" world view. There is no doubt that men have used "religion" to rationalize and justify wars, the oppression of men, and as a way to control populations, however men of "faith" do not. Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, and Biblical Christianity do not support wars fought to force conversion of anyone. On the other hand atheists like G.R. Morton resort to outright lies in the attempt to show their "rational world view" is the only world view worth adopting. You have every right to be damn angry at the atrocities committed in the name of religion. Hinduism used "religion" to justify the "untouchables". Pope Urban II used "religion" to justify the crusades. Muslims use "religion" to justify wars of conquest and to kill each other. Catholicism and Catholic monarchs used "religion" to justify the inquisitions. Pope Leo IX used "religion" to justify selling priests wives into slavery and confiscating property given to priests as Church property. Calvin used "religion" to suppress and kill Jews, unitarians and other Protestants. Puritans used "religion" to justify the Salem witch trials. The leaders of the political religious right are using "religion" in its attempt to take control of American politics. "Religion" can be a force for good but historically has been used to oppress, subjugate, and control people, but then so has atheism (Stalin, Mao, and Putin come to mind). I know you have a low opinion of Christianity, however "every intent of the heart of man is evil from his youth" is a true statement and is found in Genesis and is supported by history. |
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