Lulz jack. Religion isn't evil, it's the human scum who throw their sense of reason in the trashbin and use their "faith" as a scapegoat when they explain why they commited atrocities and made dumbass choices that are the problem. I'm a non-denominational Christian, but that doesn't mean I'm being steered into evil action now does it? And lets not even mention the fact that people who jump on the "let's criticize religion!" bandwagon are, more often than not, unable to make a distinction between irrational obedience and having trust in something more than yourself to a logical degree, and yet continue to progagate worthless generalizations about ALL adherents to a specific mode of religious thought because its conveniant to do so.
When ****e happens, people are responsible for their actions. Regardless of what you see or hear or read, if you let something else determine what you do then you are simply making an excuse so you can commit the action in question. This doesn't just apply to religion, but to T.V., music, art, advertising, video games, etc. Men and women get themselves into messes because its easier to put their brains on cruise control and have someone else do the thinking for them (culture, friends, the media, your local pastor), because people on the whole are lazy and like to live life as if they're half awake.
Ultimately, blaming religion for stupid people doing stupid things is no different than blaming Toyota if you got in a car wreck due to your own crappy driving (or the other driver's driving). To say otherwise is making excuses for the weaklings who were tools to begin with.
Last edited by Anteater; 12-01-2008 at 01:19 PM.
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