I'll sum up the above in a step by step fashion that hopefully you can follow, although I doubt it.Gandelf wrote:Ahah... now I've clearly hit a nerve!
Ok, you're so clever... answer my question.
If you say that the facts of the Laws of Physics prove that God doesn't exist, then you must accept that religion is false, because it is based on the existence of God, who (according to you) doesn't exist.
If this is the case, then you must accept that the way mankind is today is directly the result of evolution.
So, if you believe that God doesn't exist, how can you possibly blame the evil acts committed by man on God and religion.
If religion is a misguided "theory", then it comes out of the brain of man, which has evolved.
You can't have it both ways. If religion is to blame, you have to accept that God exists, or, it's just man believing in a God when there is no God, which is a result of how man's brain has evolved to believe in such things.
If you don't believe in God, then you have to accept that evolution has made man what he is today.
So come on, put your money where your mouth is. If you don't believe in God then how can religion possibly be to blame? If you're right, then religion is a belief that has come out of human evolution. So all the evil in the world is nothing to do with religion but how man has evolved?
- Religion is a control tool, made up for stupid people.
- Stupid people follow religion.
- People do bad things regardless of their beleifs
- Religion is often used as an excuse and a justification for the bad things
Therefore, it's not a question as to whether or not beleifs cause people to do bad things or not but that religion often incites bad things or is used to cover up bad things, non-beleivers don't need to cover up the bad things they do with religion.
It's somewhat ironic that you question how religion can lead to bad things when your very argument and defiance of any other beleif than christianity has for the past week be used by you to incite flamewars. It's that attitude, that your religion is right no matter, what no matter what's posed against it that leads to religion being the cause of major problems, particularly when you have people of two opposing religions pitched against each other. The difference with atheism is that atheists don't feel the need to go to war over their beleifs because they either don't have any or they have scientific evidence to justify their beleifs and that's the difference - that atheism is based on a lack of care or a quest for factual evidence of the world around us whereas religions are based on nothing but blind faith and speculation.