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A peaceful religion?

ADKSparky 8 May 8
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The way that religionists turn a blind eye to the evil done by their fellow-believers is either evil itself or evidence of a gigantic moral blind spot (perhaps a brain defect?). And, said moral blind spot is studiously omitted by religious dogmas. Christians and Muslims rarely, rarely call out their fellows for the evil committed by their co-religionists.

Atheists, on the other hand, are constantly reminded of Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot by these same religionists. But again, they are careful not to mention how these regimes became personality cults seeking to replace religion with communist doctrine. Very little history shows the victims of communism to have been slain for refusing to become atheists.

We have a cult of personality around President Chump

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There seem to be two camps of Jesus followers.

One who follows the Holly Ghost and ignores the horrible bits in the Bible like Latino Catholics. The laws are blended upon their hearts, through Jesus Christ consciousness. Jesus is beautiful, intelligent and kind man who would not beat his sheep only the money changers. Sound like an anarchist.

Two- The overly rightousness who take much written as ultimate true and knowledge and beat their sheep. Who grant Julius Caesar what is Caesar from written in the King James Bible. Who are merging with the Military and politics. Who create 90% of the world wars, prisons and slavery.

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Most religion have bloodshed in their history in the name of GOD.

Unity Level 7 May 9, 2019

I can't think of time Buddhism did

@dan325 I think you're over characterizing that as something to do with religion when it is readily apparent that it is a culture war. The Muslims in Myanmar that integrate into society face less persecution. This tells me it is an alienation of a foriegn culture. It is the same thing that has held blacks are back in the United States. By creating and maintaining a cultural divide there is a wall between communities.
The sentiment of assimilation is an important aspect of society.

@Biosteelman Don't forget the Tamil Tigers. Buddhism is still rank superstition, and assinine to describe all existence as suffering.

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To be fair, most moderates barely read the Bible and even then, only the good parts.

I was in the same boat until during a crisis of fate I read the Bible and saw the horrible acts god committed to everyone. That help me break free from my “religion”.

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I have to let Christians off the hook here because I don’t think many of them even know what’s in their cherished book.

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Exactly! This is what to expect out of the Abrahamic religions and even beyond.

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All religions are peaceful when they do not have the biggest army in the region.
The problem of religions is that you can go as deep as you want and deeper you go, more things you can justify using it.
All old civilizations had their struggle and even for serious people that study the theology (as literature or cultural aspects) can say that there are the historical tales and the doctrinal part. To mix both you have examples for any action basically.
Even the genocides were only for that period, those actions are not to be repeated without God itself asking for it (discuss if YHWH is a good or bad character is not the point here).
But of course, you can take it as an example of what to do with infidels, then you are "correct" in doing bad things.

And think with me, if you start with the (false) premisse that a god created and has control of every thing, this god is the definition of things, whatever it says that is good IS good, he is above philosophy or logic. He is the player in a world of sims, we are not even "real" for him, we are only toys that have some limited freedom.

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" Those who merely choose to ignore wrongs by their inactions SUPPORT and Condone those very wrongs." -William Anthony.

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Just like Islam! Their are no moderate religious believers!

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That's exactly the problem: billions of good people lend their respectability to the containers of the most appalling hate, and instead of condemning and rejecting the hate, they pretend that it isn't hate, that it isn't there or that it doesn't apply, and they deny that it drives the violence that it generates, even though it has a long proven track record of generating genocide after genocide after genocide.

If these people are as good as they think they are, they should have the balls to stand up to the vicious beasts they call "God" and tell him where to stick his vile hate. Either that, or they should recognise that none of that hate can possibly have come from him, that it is blasphemous, and they should strip it out of the holy texts to stop it being propagated and loaded into the fragile minds which are attracted to violence and which then act upon it. They are all to blame for the violence, and they need to do something to stop it. Being apologists for hate who deny that it's hate just doesn't hack it.

I have always thought they need to stop using God (real or not) as an excuse and have the vagina (Betty White) too stand up for their actions. Instead they hide behind "God". This is not unique to religion though. Humans in groups are dumb and tend to bend to the strongest will, or the one who offers them the most with the least effort on their part.

@Quarm Indeed, there are plenty of non-religious ideologies which propagate the same kind of hate, but at least it's possible to ban the worst ones without people dragging imaginary gods into the argument to demand that those ideologies be respected and their hate tolerated.

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I sometimes see a similar meme with a Muslim holding the Quran...all the same to me...

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Abdicating personal responsibility for one's actions...

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HA HA... That is very good. Another name for these people is called "I am a dumb fuck."

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A a secular Jew, we've been on the short end of the stick.

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Relatively, yes. The keyword is "moderate".

Admin Level 9 May 8, 2019

OK...and if she's ''moderate"....what about those who merely live by their ''golden rule" and never impose their religion on anyone else? Are they RADICAL?

@LucyLoohoo Their silent. They do not particularly care what any one thinks. I know a lot of them. They are in my experience wonderful people who embrace love, forgiveness (as much of themselves as others) and while they do believe in a God they make no claim to know such a beings mind or others fate. I do not agree with many of their beliefs but I value their humble nature and compassion.

@Quarm I wish they were the MAJORITY....but, alas, they are not!

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