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Originally Posted by heurisdick
Come up with actual reasons religion leads you to evil, not just examples of bad seeds.
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Faith. Religion, and thus faith, teaches you to do and believe things just because someone told you to. This is good for some things, as I have mentioned elsewhere on the board, as in teaching children how not to die/maim themselves. But for this kind of mindset to continue in adulthood is disgusting.
It's probably the primary reason why things like discrimination, superstition, homeopathy, and general illogical/irrational behavior is so pervasive in modern society.
Faith teaches not to question, not to doubt, not to suggest alternative ways of doing things. It teaches absolute, unquestioning loyalty to something, almost always without any evidence. -- which is why so many people have been brainwashed (
) into somehow thinking religious "faith" is an admirable or noble quality, when it couldn't be further from the truth.