Religion Is an Insult to human dignity

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26. I understand what you wrote, and there is a lot of truth to it, but don't forget that many lives

have been lost because of religion, and not going too far back in history lets remember that G. W. Bush called his invasion of Iraq his Crusade, and speaking about the Crusades, remember how many people died because of the whim of a pope?

Religion was created to rule people, to manage the herd, and that is exactly what it does. It is full of absurdities, like on the Catholic religion you are born with a sin because in order for you to be in this world your parents had to conceive, and although the church wants you to procreate, your kids are born with the "Original" sin because they did what the church wants people to do. Too many contradictions, too much guilt put into people's minds, too much fantasy.

I agree with one of the quotes in the original post that explains very well that with or without religion there will be good people who will do good things, and there will be evil people who will do evil things, but it takes evil people to do evil things in the name of religion, so religion must exist for those people. Of course that I did not write it exactly as it shows on the post, but the meaning is the same.

Yes, true that religious people have produced incredible art, but that would have happened without religion, they would have created art that glorified something else from life, same with philosophy and everything else. Religion has also created some of the most corrupt enterprises, starting with the Vatican. Anyway, I could go on, but enough said.

I liked your post very much.

By the way, if anyone speaks Spanish, and likes reading in Spanish, there is a book by a Spanish author titled "El Catolicismo explicado a las ovejas." It is well researched and a fantastic read, the author Juan Eslava Galan, is very funny as well.

Here is the link to Amazon for that book:
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