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Religion Causes No Harm
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In discussions on R&S both here and elsewhere one often hears questions like
Why are you bothered?
Why don't you just let people believe what they want?
What harm does religion do?
This is one example of the harm religion can do.
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and it's one of the reasons atheists never shut up about religion.
Why are you bothered?
Why don't you just let people believe what they want?
What harm does religion do?
This is one example of the harm religion can do.
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and it's one of the reasons atheists never shut up about religion.
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I think that any group mentality memeplex has the potential to be harmful. You might cite the BNP or the National Front and say that therefore political parties are harmful and the woman who recently fled with her child to avoid his being given treatment for his cancer was not, to my knowledge, motivated by religion.
Fashion magazines are said to damage the self image of teenagers, McDonalds is said to be ruining the nation's health, shall we therefore say that all magazines and fast food restaurants are harmful?
Fashion magazines are said to damage the self image of teenagers, McDonalds is said to be ruining the nation's health, shall we therefore say that all magazines and fast food restaurants are harmful?
Its the sheer number if instances you can find which are associated with the harms due to faith that make it so dangerous and noteworthy, Woofgang.
Leaving aside the more egregious examples of harms done through the divisiveness of religious belief - from muslims vs christians in Nigeria through to Sunni versus Shia across the middle east and protestant vs catholic in Ireland, you then have preachers/pastors/imams or whatever exhorting the faithful to commit heinous acts on others because of blasphemy, or because they have a different sexual orientation or whatever.
And then you get examples like the one chris offers, or this one from the US involving parents whose religion means they believe in faith healing - they have now had 2 sons die through preventable illness through not seeking medical help, and have been charged and found guilty of murder for the most recent death of their second son.
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Its that cumulative effect of all the zealousness and evangelism and fundamentalism that causes humanity harm, day after day after day.
Leaving aside the more egregious examples of harms done through the divisiveness of religious belief - from muslims vs christians in Nigeria through to Sunni versus Shia across the middle east and protestant vs catholic in Ireland, you then have preachers/pastors/imams or whatever exhorting the faithful to commit heinous acts on others because of blasphemy, or because they have a different sexual orientation or whatever.
And then you get examples like the one chris offers, or this one from the US involving parents whose religion means they believe in faith healing - they have now had 2 sons die through preventable illness through not seeking medical help, and have been charged and found guilty of murder for the most recent death of their second son.
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Its that cumulative effect of all the zealousness and evangelism and fundamentalism that causes humanity harm, day after day after day.
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