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Originally Posted by KidCann117
Agnostics are Atheists with out balls- Stephen Colbert
Your thread is very . . . artistic.
I am not an athiest, but have you considered that if there was no religon at all there would be no holy wars, extremist groups, etc etc
Also I contemplated this, while taking an ice bath for my soreness, so i must project it.
Religon if anything expects the worst of man. The whole reason why churches and moral codes etc are established is so that man does not do the wrong thing. . . Honestly, it doesnt take a Christian, a Jew, a Muslim, Buddhist, or Hindu, (Scientology? sure why not), to figure out not to murder, lie, cheat, steal, rape etc
Now if you excuse me I must develop this line of thought further with some sort of non-denominational/Cao Đàist form of medition.
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Any meme which results in a tribalistic attitude where other people are dehumanized into "the others", and where "the others" are doing something to anger the hosts of such a meme can result in conflicts akin to holy wars. Religions are only a subset of such memes. Heck, a secular campaign to end religion for the sake of ending holy wars could result in brutality... now wouldn't that be ironic. Another example is the so-called war on terrorism, an American "patriotic" meme which follows this pattern. It starts out as a fairly reasonable outrage, but an overreaction occurs, irrational decisions are made, and bad things happen.