Reading that thread on the beheadings and seeing the amount of christians and muslims willing to excuse things and shift blame had me wondering how people feel generally if our society woulda been better off without it or with it.

This isn't a bash specific groups thread either btw so refrain from that please.

Religion is what you make of it. Organized religion is historically trash af tho

It’s neutral

I feel like from an objective stance the human race is a failure. We do nothing but oppress when we get the chance and divide at every opportunity. In 200 years we've started the sixth great mass extinction. 500,000 babies die every year due to poor air quality but f*** the poor amirite.

If there is a god he's looking on in horror as his creation destroys itself.

Him and Kidkuro would be banned from the thread if I could do it

Religion isn't the problem, its broad systems of power with no accountability and insane sway over their "citizens". Religion is just beliefs, but organized religon is unchecked systems of oppression.

Damn nigga ended the thread on page 1

Positive by far

Why?

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

if u took away religion countries would just find something else to beef about

History would say this is wrong

as far as religion. If religion never existed then it would be something else that niggas would hate niggas for my g.

twitter was trending years ago for light skins versus dark skins. niggas was literally dissing each other over what shade of black you was.

Niggas fight and kill each other over literal concrete and streets that are literally blocks away from each other.

It's not religion that's the problem as much as it is the society around it 'nahmean?

It can be a positive to individuals and even groups. The problem is when it is imposed on others

In theory, they're an omnipotent and omnipresent being. Therefore they knew what would happen.

Negative because of how society uses it to conrtol people, when it should really be for the self

eh 50/50

Yeah big part of why I left the christian faith is because I couldn't reconcile the omniscience of god with people ending up in hell. Like mandem knew people would reject him and go to hell, why not just not make those people? Seems psycho to me.

for the individual, religion can be infinitely positive. when you bring it through a societal lens though, it can be poisonous.

Agreed

Christianity forbids murdering, so you'd rather just fantasize about God murdering them for you. Another way to phrase it, "Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful."

Every religion in history has been done by religious crowds

Ironically china been pretty much atheist for a minute and they’re not rebelling any time soon

tell them manifest destiny cacs and them crusader cacs that they was set tripping wrong then my g.