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Quote by: Agent007 Apparently, you all misunderstand me. Not always throughout human history have men and women been able to go about their lives in purity without a certain guidance. One may argue then that religion has become outdated and there is no longer a use for it. However, it is still morally enriching and can bring comfort to its followers; for instance, knowing that one will enter into everlasting life after death can be a comfort to one with a miserable life so that he or she becomes happy. One may argue that this religion presents an unhealthy alternate reality, but it actually is very beneficial. People would be more compelled by an organized religion and the assembly of other humans to give to the poor than they would by their own intrinsic belevolence, goodwill, and wisdom, which you are implying is present in everyone. For most people in the world, God guides lives and is inherently essential (this should be a general religious comment and should not be intrepreted as exclusive to Christians). |
The culture for democracy does all the good things religion can do, and without all the bad stuff that goes with religion, superstition, inquistions, religous persecution, genecide and wars justified as the will of God, witch hunts, and closing people's minds so they are incapable of abstract and critical thinking, and fail to participate in self government, unless a moral issue is to be voted on. Someone said this is like Nazi Germany, yes, when we adopted the German model of education for technology and left moral training to the church, we stopped being united by culture and have social breakdown. We are reactionary as Germany was, and religious superstition along with occult superstition, has been unleashed like insects warmed by the sun. This is exactly like Nazi, Germany.
Religion teaches people what to think. Deomcracy teaches them how to think, and results in a higher morality. But we haven't had education for that since 1958.