PappaSmurf;732014 said:
Thing is where would these people be if there wasn't an organized Religion for them to hide behind? These people are using a fanatic devotion and code of ethics instilled in the population over centuries to manipulate and control them. This comes back to my original point, organized religion is fundamental in the control, and absolvement of basic human morals through providing a means to justify horrendous actions.
Remove the organization yet allow individuals to continue to have their faith, as they interpret it and you lose that shield. You can still pray nightly and go to heaven. You can still strap a bomb to your ass and blow up a bus load of elderly people in the name of your god in hopes of getting 22 virgins in heaven, but you won't have a small group of charismatic jackasses encouraging and and promoting such action. This over all will cause a net decrease in such actions, as the majority of the people are either cowards who haven't a big enough pair to do such things and need the support and initiative or have enough sense to know it's bullshit and stay the hell away from it.
How old is organized religion, not just the big three, or four, Budism's pretty darn big, but religion as a whole? And how about that membership, anyone of the big four can easily boast more members than, probably any nation on earth.
A lot of people
+ a lot of time
= a lot of bullshit.
And how much of these good book's are really the will of god, god's whatever. I think it's more like 99 virgins, if give your life. The meek shall inherit the earth, suffer through life and you will be rewarded in the here after.
Yea sounds alot like direction's for making sheep.
For some weird reason some people need to have someone else point the way for them, have an overwhelming need to belong to something, religion, Political, PTA, KKK, NRA whatever.
Take away their religion and they'll find something else to belong to, and there will be someone there waiting to take advantage. I'm sure thing's would be better for awhile, it would take time to get the next big excuse rolling, look how long it took for religion to get to this point.
I agree with 99% of what you say on this subject. I just don't think you give humanity enough credit for it's ability to prey on it's self.
I know how to spell Buddhism, I not sure but I think Budism is bigger, it's a sin not to have a Bud in the frig.