Ugh, my work will never be done. ; ;
Midgardsormr.Natlow said:
If you were to actually do your homework rather than making flamboyant accusations, you'd realise that most religions are based on having good morals and showing kindness and generosity to one another. Is this such a bad thing?
Admittedly some people take things to far, to an extremist level, but you cannot blame this on the religion. The fault lies within the person. I'm willing to bet a lot of money that there are some Aethists out there who are just as extremist as some religious fanatics.
Unfortunately in more archaic times a lot of atrocities were committed in the name of religion, but the majority of people have left that behind, and joined society's move into a more civilised era.
On a final note, religion will never fade away. Lenin tried to do this in Russia, but religion is so engrained into people's minds/souls/whateveryouwanttocallit that this failed and proved that religion will always be around whether you like it or not. So you may as well resign to living with it and seeing some of the positives rather than trying to flame those who have beliefs and bring down all religion in the world on an FFXI forum.
You need to do your homework too, to be honest. While religion(s) did start off innocently? They were not based on being kind to one another, and all that blah blah blah good-two-shoe crap is modern Christian propaganda, sorry.
The whole idea behind gods and goddess' was solely based off trying to explain the physical world. Your Christian god hasn't been around even half as long(to date) as even Ancient Egyptian gods and goddess' were around
before Christianity came onto the scene. Christian/Catholic/Islamic~Muslim beliefs are
ALL rather young religions compared to religions like those of the Ancient Egyptians. And the Ancient Egyptian religions died out over a thousand years ago, and it was still a belief longer than Christianity and Christianity is still going.
Hell, Christianity will have to be a religion for another 4,000 years before it takes over the mantle of oldest religion in history.
So, like I said: You need to study up as well. Because your thought that any religion started off all fluffy and Care Bearish? Is a load of bull, and you have no idea what you are talking about, sorry. The Ancient religions started off as a way to explain the physical world around our ancestors. The religions(cults) like Christianity(meaning all Western and Middle-Eastern religions), all started off as propaganda and was only a religion to gather people around a certain idea and thought, and was evil from the get-go.
Why do any of you religious people think that there was a transition between many gods, to a singular god? Politics. How do you undermine a King that you oppose? Create a new cult, or take an existing cult and push it's idealogy onto others, in the hopes of controlling them. How do you think Christianity came to be? >.>
Yes, I am one of the Atheist's that is an extremist, and is why I consider myself to be Anti-Religion.
But you will never see me strap a bomb to my chest and kill innocent people, just going about their day. You will never see my call someone a witch because I don't understand their ways or how they did something, and have them strung up in their hometown and burned at the stake. You will never see me gather an army and march to convert everyone or kill them. You will never see me kill someone or their family for refusing to believe what I do.
There are so many ways, to show you how your religion is evil. Western and Middle-Eastern.
And I'm sorry kid, but religion is on it's way out the door. Science is the new tenant of understanding, and is why we have what we have today. And religion is the reason we are not further in our evolution both technological and in understanding the universe, as religion(western and middle-eastern) opposes any thought but it's own.
There are more Atheists today then ever before. And even so, do you honestly believe that Christianity is going to last longer in history then Ancient Egyptian beliefs? If you think so then you are honestly lost and need to study your history again. Because as with the Ancient religions that I talked about in my first post? Christianity and all western and middle-eastern religions days are numbered, history likes to repeat itself. If you don't believe that? Then you are ignorant, and unworthy of this worlds time.
There are no positives to any Western and Middle-Eastern religion that has been around for the past 2,000 years, none. Get that out of your head.
And to anyone who keeps using the "it's the people, not the religion" argument:
Without the person, there is no religion. If you have no one to follow, you have no religion. Religion cannot survive without the people, yet the people can survive without the religion. Religion is just the jumbo-sized version of a cult. When I used it? It was to explain that ancient religions(ancient peoples) created the first religions to explain the world around them, and it was the people behind religion that turned it evil.
And I should have been more clear:
All Western and Middle-Eastern religions(the young religions, Christianity/Islam/Mormonism etc) are all evil, they were created as a way to control thought, they are nothing like the original religions that our ancestors created that were innocent. There is that massive line seperating the first religions from those like Christianity/Islam~Muslam/Mormonism etc.
The problem with your Lenin thing? Is that it is untrue on any level. Lenin was a monarch, regardless of his actual title, and what do monarchs do? ...........? Exactly. >.>