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by Anonymous on March 13th, 2006

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Is religion considered to be a good or bad thing for our society?

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  • by FadingxSmiles on January 14th, 2007

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    Religion is bad because 1) It causes lots of controversy, and has been the start of wars. 2) It is an opening for anyone who wants to put people down for being different. They use religion as an excuse. 3)People refuse things such as medical assitance because it's "in God's hands."

    It is good because 1)It provides us with a set of morals. 2) It gives people a little hope, and helps them out of hard times. 3)Being in a religious group makes people feel like they are part of something larger.

    Though, I personally think it's a bad thing (even if I'm contradicting most of what I said here). I think it would be better if we believed at first, just long enough to get a sense of what's good or bad. A little like a Santa Claus kind of thing.

    You religious people can rate me down if you like. It's my opinion, and if you don't like it, that's fine with me.

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    • Well at least you are being fair about it. But remember what you are saying though. If you are suggesting we get rid of religions then you are suggesting that if everyone saw things the same way you saw them, then there would be less violence and wars. Well guess what if everyone was a Lutheran like me and believed like I do there wouldn't be the problems either. If everyone belived the same way any non-violent person believes then we wouldn't have violence.

      Valparaiso

      by Valparaiso on January 14th, 2007

    • Religion has the ability to generate unselfish love in some people, and vicious, raw hatred in others. Religion is only as good as the people promoting it.

      On one hand religion creates people like Gandhi and Mother Teresa and on the other hand it creates people like Adolf Hitler.

      When you have loving kind people promoting peace and love, religion is a good thing. When you have vengeful vindictive people promoting acts of violence and hate, religion is a bad thing.

      Religion, like every thing else in the world is neutral. Religion on it’s own is neither good nor bad. Religion becomes good or evil when it is wielded by it’s followers, depending on how it’s followers go about promoting it.

      People who do good things, give their religion of choice a good name. People who do bad things, cause their chosen religion to suffer a bad reputation.

      Each religion has rules and doctrines, but the religion and it’s rules and doctrines are only as good as the members who promote them, and are farther only as good as the methods used by the members to promote them. Without it’s members a religion means nothing.

      Some of the greatest acts in history were inspired by religion, and yet religion has also been used to justify slavery, murder, torture, terrorism, war, racial segregation, oppression of women, discrimination, bigotry, genocides, infanticides, exterminations of minorities, hate crimes, and other horrendous evils.

      EelKat

      by EelKat on February 24th, 2010

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