Graffiti

Aug 5 2014, 10:45 PM

All three of the main religions, Christianity, Judaism, and Islam all shared the same message in my opinion but slighty different changes to the message. Idk if im going off topic here and I am, then apologies.

Pelador

Aug 6 2014, 12:07 AM

You mean Isreal and Palestine not Islam. Important not to confuse the two.

Also a lot of the genocide and hatred in the world doesn't come from religion, it comes from greed and ignorance. The two world wars were political. Same for the Napoleonic wars. Idi Amin didn't slaughter people because of religion, he killed them because he was insane. So no, religion is not the root of all evil. Money and not being educated are. And hard drugs like cocaine and heroin.

lucrowe

Aug 6 2014, 12:20 AM

Pelador

Aug 6 2014, 12:07 AM

You mean Isreal and Palestine not Islam. Important not to confuse the two.

Also a lot of the genocide and hatred in the world doesn't come from religion, it comes from greed and ignorance. The two world wars were political. Same for the Napoleonic wars. Idi Amin didn't slaughter people because of religion, he killed them because he was insane. So no, religion is not the root of all evil. Money and not being educated are. And hard drugs like cocaine and heroin.

My apologies, Israel! That's the one. I don't know where I got Islam from, must have been the 'Is' but regardless, thats right!

Now I never said all evil, I said allot of evil. Through out the course of time imagine how many times the words "death to the infidels" have been spoken. People used to burn 'witches' in the name of god... witches!!!! Many un-friendly ties between civilisations have started from religion, plenty of people have been killed in gods name through-out the course of history. It's shocking! People who used to follow science in the middle ages had to work in secret other wise the churches would have them killed. Power started from religion, and the churches are still very powerful today. As far as morality goes religion is the biggest hypocrite in the world. "Thou shalt not kill, unless we say so"

Pelador

Aug 6 2014, 12:55 AM

Throughout most of history, witches were seen as a good thing. It was only under Oliver Cromwell that they started being persecuted. As for your science arguement, not true. A lot of the worlds greatest scientists and engineers were Christians and Muslims. There was never any widespread persecution of people who observed the sciences. Since science and God were assumed to be the same thing, then if you studied science then you were also studying God.

Ketchup Revenge

Aug 6 2014, 01:09 AM

Pelador

Aug 6 2014, 12:55 AM

Throughout most of history, witches were seen as a good thing. It was only under Oliver Cromwell that they started being persecuted. As for your science arguement, not true. A lot of the worlds greatest scientists and engineers were Christians and Muslims. There was never any widespread persecution of people who observed the sciences. Since science and God were assumed to be the same thing, then if you studied science then you were also studying God.

Issac Newton was a devout Christian who invented physics to try to prove God's existence.

However, your claim about widespread persecution not being present with science is not entirely true. You could study science in the past, as long as your claims didn't conflict with the Bible or other religious texts, than you were ok. Copernicus, Galileo, even Davinci were all persecuted for their beliefs about science and God.

Copernicus believed that the Universe stretched on forever, and eventually died in prison for his beliefs.

Galileo was one of the first to suggest that the Earth was not the center of the Universe, and had a massive misunderstanding with the church; as we all know.

Davinci was placed on house arrest for his belief that Jesus and Mary Magdalene had children, and that his lineage was the true Holy Grail.

However, most well recognized modern scientists are agnostic or atheist though.

lucrowe

Aug 6 2014, 01:19 AM

Ketchup Revenge

Aug 6 2014, 01:09 AM

Pelador

Aug 6 2014, 12:55 AM

Throughout most of history, witches were seen as a good thing. It was only under Oliver Cromwell that they started being persecuted. As for your science arguement, not true. A lot of the worlds greatest scientists and engineers were Christians and Muslims. There was never any widespread persecution of people who observed the sciences. Since science and God were assumed to be the same thing, then if you studied science then you were also studying God.

Issac Newton was a devout Christian who invented physics to try to prove God's existence.

However, your claim about widespread persecution not being present with science is not entirely true. You could study science in the past, as long as your claims didn't conflict with the Bible or other religious texts, than you were ok. Copernicus, Galileo, even Davinci were all persecuted for their beliefs about science and God.

Copernicus believed that the Universe stretched on forever, and eventually died in prison for his beliefs.

Galileo was one of the first to suggest that the Earth was not the center of the Universe, and had a massive misunderstanding with the church; as we all know.

Davinci was placed on house arrest for his belief that Jesus and Mary Magdalene had children, and that his lineage was the true Holy Grail.

However, most well recognized modern scientists are agnostic or atheist though.

Amazing how physics is now the leading argument against God, wouldn't you agree? If M-theory and the big bang are in fact proven, that's the bible thrown in the fiction section of your local library right there.