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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I believe in God and the power of prayer but think all organized religion has done far more harm than good.

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[b]How?[/b] [/quote]

Have you read much history?[/quote]

Tons. Why do you have an opinion that organized religion has done more harm than good?

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More people have been killed over religion than anything else. Wars, crusades, pogroms, Holocaust, torture, the Inquisition, forced conversions, forced expulsions. For thousands of years people have been killing each other over a small barren strip of land in the Middle East that doesn’t even have any oil. How stupid is that?  And that’s not to mention religious discrimination. John Lennon was right in his song “Imagine” that without religion there would be nothing kill or die for. [/quote]

Let’s see, Stalin, Hitler, Mao’s Cultural Revolution, Pol Pot collectively killed more than religion.

Are you the historically ignorant OP of the “root religions” thread?[/quote]

That’s right. Stalin sent Jews east to death camps. Hitler killed six million Jews. But as many as this sounds like, it pales in comparison to the millions killed in religious conflicts over thousands of years. People still kill each other over that barren strip of land in the Middle East. Sunni and Shiite Muslims are slaughtering each other in Yemen. Muslims and Hindus are slaughtering each other in Kashmir. [/quote]

What a bizarre post. Stalin and Hitler killed millions more besides Jews in the name of their secular ideologies. Putin is killing people in the Ukraine as we speak in the name of geopilitical power. [/quote]

Also: why do atheists have to hijack every.single.thread?[/quote]

Because they are free from the control of organized religion, and thus spend their lives thinking about organized religion and discussion of organized religion. [/quote]

*in discussion of organized religion

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