On 2 Aug 2005, at 6:50 pm, Warren Ockrassa wrote:
On Aug 2, 2005, at 10:37 AM, William T Goodall wrote:
On 2 Aug 2005, at 6:14 pm, Warren Ockrassa wrote:
Well, it *had* been a compelling post until this graf. Is EVERY
evil that exists ANYWHERE attributable in your mind to religion?
Stupidity and ignorance have roles too :)
Heh, indubitably. But I still think it's rather naive to suggest
that *all* behavior we judge as atrocious can be attributed to one
root cause.
I don't suggest that. But I do think that religion is one of the
easiest causes of evil to eradicate.
The argument that it's all because of religion is as simplistic, I
think, as the argument that we're innately a violent species, that
it's somehow "in our genes" to perpetrate violence. Hubbard tried
something similar in attributing all negative behavior to "engrams"
and founded a cult of lunatics in the process.
One-sided monochromatic thinking tends to lack subtlety and doesn't
often see that *some* validity for *some* points of view does not
equal 100% rectitude in all situations. That's a long way around
suggesting the outlook "it's all religion's fault" is not only
monotonous but possibly obsessive. It's also patently false. I can
think of quite a few evils not perpetrated in the name of religion.
Maybe if you looked closer?
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