"RELIGIOUS belief can cause damage to a society"Originally Posted by bipper
Can. Not does.
I agree with a lot of things in this article. Religion tends to breed close-mindedness. Heavily religious people tend to see the world as "I'm right, and the rest of those godless heathens are wrong." This in turn leads to violence, and other violent crime.
Religion also breeds a kind of "sheep" instinct in people. Once they're pacified enough by their religion, they will believe just about anybody who comes along claiming to be speaking in the name of their respective god(s). Which once again can lead to violence.
As for the sexuality thing, I think that partially comes from the person's desire to distance themselves from their parents. Pretty much ever teenager wants to be different, especially from their parents, so they'll start doing things their parents said not to do, hence the sex. Although this part is a little more hazy than the violent parts.
All I know is that religion is a serious hindrance to learning and free thought, due to its "Believe me, god damnit" outlook. And I do feel that it is a problem for a civilized society. A kind of throwback to our ancient roots for whenever we couldn't figure something out, a "god" did it. You'd think that in a reasonably intelligent society (hahaha, I know, just bear with me here) that we could just dispose of such an idea, and move to more rational ideas. Religion is not needed for a moral basis. It's irrational to just harm somebody, or to rape somebody, or to steal. Just because someone's an athiest doesn't mean their immoral. Religion is a completely uselss construct meant to give certain people more power over the weak minded.
And, for fun, I'll end on a quote by Voltaire. "Those who can make you believe in absurdities can make you commit atrocities."
