Religion
Related: About this forumAnd the number one religion news story of 2014 is:
1. The self-styled Islamic State expands a reign of terror into Iraq and Syria, driving out the Iraqi army from Mosul and exiling ancient Christian communities, Yazidis and other religious minorities on threat of death. The United Nations, Christians and many Muslim groups strongly condemn the videotaped beheadings of American journalist James Foley and other hostages as inhumane and un-Islamic.
http://www.rna.org/?page=Top_10_2014
number 2 and 3 are pretty shitty too, although tied for 3 is !The Amazing Pope!
The list is not a great argument for why we need religion.
JDDavis
(725 posts)So much for "traditional family values".
TexasProgresive
(12,257 posts)edhopper
(34,600 posts)at stopping Gay marriage than almost anyone else.
But the 40 wives thingy was fine.
JDDavis
(725 posts)Yeah, I think a major religion that considers itself a "Christian" religion might want to sort out some of their past and realize that a "tradition" of one man one woman that wasn't at all the same 150 years ago within their faith might not be that much of a "tradition".
And another news item from last year was all about ex-communicating a woman who argued in favor of changing the "tradition" of male dominance in that faith, by allowing women more equal powers and rights.
So male dominance is really the "tradition" that Mormonism wants to keep; no matter whether it's deciding the number of wives or deciding who gets to rule in that church.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)I'm guessing it's a close race, anyway.
edhopper
(34,600 posts)I just know they were the main contributor in the Prop 8 fight against Gay marriage.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)They outspent the RCC by quite a bit. But they were also working together in all of it.
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jan/21/local/la-me-prop8-trial21-2010jan21
And catholic voters did the heavy lifting.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=&w=1484
edhopper
(34,600 posts)The RCChas actively worked against same sex marriage.
edhopper
(34,600 posts)I was told that ISIS has nothing to do with religion.
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)JDDavis
(725 posts)RNA is just a secret front for the secret atheist and anti-theist army that is waging war on Christmas and religion. By printing all this news about religion, they convert more and more people into atheism.
It's the best atheist strategy ever, call themselves "religious", publish terrible news about what religious people are doing to others, and then, wham, bam alakazam, more atheists come out of the closet.
procon
(15,805 posts)hate, fear, discrimination and ignorance that is driven by avaricious, powerful patriarchies. Over the millennia, this scam, in all its various iterations, has crippled the progress of human society and impeded the advance of civilization.
While a case might be made for notable exceptions, they are too few and too transient to have altered the seductive lure greed, power and authoritarian control that predominants the world's religious factions.
mr blur
(7,753 posts)of the appalling hurt, divisions, cruelties, ignorance and selfish stupidity of all forms of religion. Forget global warming, nuclear war and the rest, this religion nonsense is what is going to finish us all off.
And no bullshit from Blank Frank, Pope Awesome is going to make the slightest bit of difference to anything: bigotry wrapped in prayer is still bigotry.
Starboard Tack
(11,181 posts)We should respect the rights of individuals to voice their intolerance, as distasteful as it may be. That does not mean we should respect the intolerance itself.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)Sweeney
(505 posts)like a healed over abscess. It is not polite to talk about racism in America for example. It does not mean it has disappeared, and is not a cause un-acknowledge of many events.
Sweeney
(505 posts)The nonsense people believe is only more dangerous than the nonsense people think they know. Certainty is only a mask of ignorance. To learn is to know first ones ignorance, and that knowledge denies any sense of certainty.
Sweeney
(505 posts)Is the fuss they make if you try to take it away.
Religio is a tie back to the past. Religion explains reality in the eyes of believers as well as science does for rational people. It also offers people a community and as sense of worth and purpose. It would all be perfectly acceptable if the religious did not demand special privileges which makes them more than politically equal, and if they did not try to involve themselves in issue beyond their department on the basis of their manipulated flocks.