If there is one thing that should be banned in life it is....................

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  1. leebrilleaux

    leebrilleaux Well-Known Member

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    #1 leebrilleaux, Aug 28, 2017
    Religion

    There I've said it.

    Caused more deaths than anything else in the world ever. Fact. (But don't quote me on it!)
     
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    #2 Jimmy viz, Aug 28, 2017
    Completely agreed. Destructive, corrosive and vicious.
     
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    #3 SuperTyke, Aug 28, 2017
    I don't believe it should be banned but it shouldn't be supported either or treated as fact by schools, given funding or protected status
     
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    #4 arabian_ian, Aug 28, 2017
    Yes I totally agree.

    Can't understand how so many find reason to fight over fables and fairy stories.
     
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    #5 jedi one, Aug 28, 2017
    i'll stick with the force, longlive the midichloreans
     
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    #6 Mr Badger, Aug 28, 2017
    It's very sad but true.
    How on earth would you have suggested this to people a hundred years ago and more when all Victorian principals in this country were based on living the good Christian life, going to church, believing in God, good versus evil, all based on religion.
    Nowadays the same good versus evil applies but even if you remove the religious aspect people's principals ought to remain the same. We do in theory know the difference between right and wrong.
     
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    #7 Sopwith Camel, Aug 28, 2017
    I think a few have had that idea before yer.. Starlin, Hitler, Chairman Mao, Pol Pot.... And that's just of top of mi head..
    All ended well dint it..
     
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    #8 tomaiba, Aug 28, 2017
    Yes let's just have a world where everyone thinks the same.
     
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    #9 Plankton Pete, Aug 28, 2017
    Godwin's law invoked, end of thread.
     
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    #10 Farnham_Red, Aug 28, 2017
    2 problems with your view. How exactly would you ban it. Religions seem to thrive when banned or actively discouraged.

    Even if you could ban it people would still find plenty of other excuses to impose their will on others and causes to fight for

    The First and second world wars were not religious wars so your premise that religion caused more deaths than anything else is probably wrong

    I don't know what the answer is to religious nutters killing in "gods name" but banning religion is t the solution
     
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    #11 lannoy, Aug 28, 2017
    Agreed. All Religion does is divide people up
     
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    #12 Sopwith Camel, Aug 28, 2017
    Sporrt, politics and any isum.. any badge.... The human mind divides..
     
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    #13 RedKestrel, Aug 28, 2017
    Racism..
     
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    #14 Xerxes, Aug 28, 2017
    Completely disagree. It's politics.
     
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    #15 Snaptin, Aug 28, 2017
    "One must state it plainly. Religion comes from the period of human prehistory where nobody-not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms-had the smallest idea what was going on. It comes from the bawling and fearful infancy of our species, and is a babyish attempt to meet our inescapable demand for knowledge (as well as for comfort, reassurance and other infantile needs). Today the least educated of my children knows much more about the natural order than any of the founders of religion, and one would like to think - though the connection is not a fully demonstrable one - that this is why they seem so uninterested in sending fellow humans to hell."
    Christopher Hitchens (God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything)

    Hitch nailed it. Religion doesn't need to be banned - it's dying a natural death on its own as we find out more and more of how the universe works. There are fewer and fewer places (gaps in our knowledge) to posit any supernatural entity. It'll die a slow and lingering death without the need to be banned. That's my twopennorth.
     
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    #16 Archey, Aug 28, 2017
    It's not the religion that's killing people, more a few peoples interpretation of a particular religion.
     
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    #17 Getrammellon, Aug 28, 2017
    Agree with all of this.

    Amen.
     
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    #18 RedKestrel, Aug 28, 2017
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    EDL Bnp et al
     
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    #19 Mr C, Aug 28, 2017
    Hemsworth Tyke?
     
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    #20 Brush, Aug 28, 2017
    Not sure about the deaths count, the two world wars were not religious and neither was Ghengis Khan who slaughtered millions.But I see your point. However, banning religion would make secular people just as bigoted and ignorant as the religious fundamentalist nutters.
     
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