If you had the power..

Reebok Trotter wrote:...to get rid of one thing permanently in the World what would you choose? Poverty, Famine, Social Media, Cancer, Aids, Gambling, Alcohol, Tobacco, Narcotics?

For me it would have to be religion. I apologise to all the ' God Botherers ' on here but history shows that religion has been responsible for more deaths of innocent lives than anything else. Remove religion and the world would be a far better place for all concerned.

Reebok Trotter wrote:...to get rid of one thing permanently in the World what would you choose? Poverty, Famine, Social Media, Cancer, Aids, Gambling, Alcohol, Tobacco, Narcotics?

For me it would have to be religion. I apologise to all the ' God Botherers ' on here but history shows that religion has been responsible for more deaths of innocent lives than anything else. Remove religion and the world would be a far better place for all concerned.

Natasha Whittam wrote:

Reebok Trotter wrote:...to get rid of one thing permanently in the World what would you choose? Poverty, Famine, Social Media, Cancer, Aids, Gambling, Alcohol, Tobacco, Narcotics?

For me it would have to be religion. I apologise to all the ' God Botherers ' on here but history shows that religion has been responsible for more deaths of innocent lives than anything else. Remove religion and the world would be a far better place for all concerned.

I'm going to church in 10 minutes, I'll pray for you as you are clearly a bellend.

xmiles wrote:

Are you going to pray for me too?

Jake McHale wrote:Humans,absolute scum.

Jake McHale wrote:Humans,absolute scum.

bwfc1874 wrote:If there wasn't religion we'd just come up with another excuse to discriminate against each other, so ye I'm with Jake. Humans came up with religion, we're the problem.

Non-Religious Dictator Lives Lost

• Joseph Stalin - 42,672,000
  
  
• Mao Zedong - 37,828,000
  
  
• Adolf Hitler - 20,946,000
  
  
• Chiang Kai-shek - 10,214,000
  
  
• Vladimir Lenin - 4,017,000
  
  
• Hideki Tojo - 3,990,000
  
  
• Pol Pot - 2,397,0003
  
  

Biggie wrote:The truth is, non-religious motivations and naturalistic philosophies bear the blame for nearly all of humankind’s wars. Lives lost during religious conflict pales in comparison to those experienced during the regimes who wanted nothing to do with the idea of God – something showcased in R. J. Rummel’s work Lethal Politics and Death by Government:

Non-Religious Dictator Lives Lost

• Joseph Stalin - 42,672,000
  
  
• Mao Zedong - 37,828,000
  
  
• Adolf Hitler - 20,946,000
  
  
• Chiang Kai-shek - 10,214,000
  
  
• Vladimir Lenin - 4,017,000
  
  
• Hideki Tojo - 3,990,000
  
  
• Pol Pot - 2,397,0003
  
  

Keegan wrote:Religion in and of itself is not a problem. Extremism is. I'm religious and I've never been a bother to anyone. A murderer who kills in the name of Religion is just the same as a murderer who wants to take your Rolo. Blaming Religion for the things some supposedly religious people do is like blaming Football for Hooligans.

Chances are unless you are Catholic, nobody religious has ever done you the slightest harm. Tongue in cheek, obviously - we've all heard the stories of Catholic Priests kiddy-fiddling. What you guys are doing is to use the worst and most extreme examples of atrocities committed in the name of Religion to paint all of Religion with a tar brush.

The millions of Religious people who go about their business trying to live by the tenets espoused by their faith, do good deeds and love their football team get no traction because they do not suit this line of argument. Politicians have been sending innocent people to wars since forever and they don't get half the vitriol directed to them that Religion does.

Hipster_Nebula wrote:
They commit crimes in the name of religion based on commands from ancient texts, these texts contain the actual word of God apparently, written by people who have spoken to God and passed on his teachings. The people who have a peaceful version of religions (certainly christianity and islam, I don't know enough about others to comment) have to literally pervert the word of God to do so.