Criticising Religion?

@cas wrote:

@cath 55 wrote:

religion huh? what an immotive subject ay along with politics?

when will people realise that just because they go worship their own forms of a higher authority it doesnt make them good people?

being a good person comes from within not just because you go to church on a sunday or whatever day you go on.

I dont however disagree with any particular religion or the right of anyone to practice it, it just seems to me that something that is supposed to bring people together to pray for peace/goodwill etc has actually caused more wars and killed more people over the time than it has saved.

‘to thine own self be true’ ……. well maybe not everyone….

Well said Cath =D> =D> =D>

hey….i’ll go along with that. =D>

Religion should be treated the same as politics. Religion should not be beyond criticism, and now that the blasphemy law that protected Christianity and (I think, Judaism) has been repealed, it’s open season for shooting down religious myths.

There is so much to criticise about religion as a whole and individual religions that it’s difficult to know where to begin! The reasons that religions are so touchy about criticism is because so many of their basic ‘truths’ don’t stand up to rational analysis, coupled to the fact that for many people, their religion is tied up with their identity and often their ethnicity too. Jews managed to tie their religion up with ethnicity quite successfully, as did Northern Ireland catholics (i.e. they weren’t of Scottish ancestry like most of the Prods) and muslims in the west can hide behind the ‘white on non-white’ racism barrier when it suits them.

Critiscism or ridicule of a religion is OK in itself as long as it doesn’t cross the line to become inciting hatred of people who follow that religion

Religions seem to reserve the word ‘truth’ to apply to their biggest lies. I am an atheist!!
Religious people can criticise atheism all they like (although that just highlights their irrationality) but that’s different from inciting hatred of atheists.

Lots of people have ‘sacred cows’ that are beyond reproach. Someone I know goes absolutely ballistic if anyone makes light of anything to do with Winston Churchill, like any pastiches of ‘never have so many……”

that would be scared cows

@bassingbourne55 wrote:

Religion should be treated the same as politics. Religion should not be beyond criticism, and now that the blasphemy law that protected Christianity and (I think, Judaism) has been repealed, it’s open season for shooting down religious myths.

There is so much to criticise about religion as a whole and individual religions that it’s difficult to know where to begin! The reasons that religions are so touchy about criticism is because so many of their basic ‘truths’ don’t stand up to rational analysis, coupled to the fact that for many people, their religion is tied up with their identity and often their ethnicity too. Jews managed to tie their religion up with ethnicity quite successfully, as did Northern Ireland catholics (i.e. they weren’t of Scottish ancestry like most of the Prods) and muslims in the west can hide behind the ‘white on non-white’ racism barrier when it suits them.

Critiscism or ridicule of a religion is OK in itself as long as it doesn’t cross the line to become inciting hatred of people who follow that religion

Religions seem to reserve the word ‘truth’ to apply to their biggest lies. I am an atheist!!
Religious people can criticise atheism all they like (although that just highlights their irrationality) but that’s different from inciting hatred of atheists.

Lots of people have ‘sacred cows’ that are beyond reproach. Someone I know goes absolutely ballistic if anyone makes light of anything to do with Winston Churchill, like any pastiches of ‘never have so many……”

at last ! someone who could understand why i ! hate religion with such a passion. its legalised abuse and hatred. we wouldnt teach our children to kill in the name of any god if we were simply people instead of always hating and fearing people of other religion. because theyre all fairy tales anyway. or should i say horror stories of rape killing and burning alive. f.f.s