Which Religion Is The Most Attractive

[Silk]

Religion is the cause of all war (oil can be too).
But if it wasn't for religion, we'd find something else to fight over.

How did religion cause the First and Second World wars?

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

Er, by using science, one mad religious person can kill millions with the flip of a button - religious people don't restrict themselves to using pea shooters. It's people that are the issue here, not science or religion.

So then no religion is actually bad, only the people within it.

Meaning if no religion existed people would be absolutely no different to how they are now with religion present.

On that I agree.

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

How did religion cause the First and Second World wars?

Or the Vietnam War, The Korean War, The Russians push through Europe etc etc

 

[Silk]

So then no religion is actually bad, only the people within it.

Meaning if no religion existed people would be absolutely no different to how they are now with religion present.

On that I agree.

And science?

 

[Silk]

To answer the OP, for me, Christianity is the most attractive. There is an awful lot that is right with it. However there is also enough wrong with it to lead me to reject it, with reluctance.

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

And science?

Well given the scare tactics being used by science over climate change I'd think if science wasn't such a big factor in daily life we might still die younger, but the planet would be in far better shape.

 

[spig100963]

Religion is the cause of all war (oil can be too).
But if it wasn't for religion, we'd find something else to fight over.

Man made borders are the start of most wars.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

Well given the scare tactics being used by science over climate change I'd think if science wasn't such a big factor in daily life we might still die younger, but the planet would be in far better shape.

And you'd still be living in a cave.

If you have to resort to believing in fairy stories to live your life, then I feel really sorry for you. Personally I'd rather live in the real world.

 

[Silk]

Man made borders are the start of most wars.

Prove it.

 

[spig100963]

Religion is all the bad things people have said on here. The only problem is without it, there is no hope.
People in a really bad way need something to cling onto. With no religion what would it be?

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

Prove it.

Well it's generally down to greed that humanity has enacted conflict.

Borders are established to try to make a point of stating what is yours and what isn't.

A great deal of human conflict involved one bunch of humans wanting to move into the territory of another and to expand its borders.

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

And you'd still be living in a cave.

If you have to resort to believing in fairy stories to live your life, then I feel really sorry for you. Personally I'd rather live in the real world.

What does it matter what anyone believes in if they are happy and harming nobody.

People don't simply "resort" to believing in something.

There's no such thing as "the real world". You merely live in your version of it.

 

[goldstone]

'Which Religion Is The Most Attractive'

The word oxymoron must have been invented for this thread..

Was just going to post the same comment myself.

Religion ... attractive!!

 

[Silk]

Religion is all the bad things people have said on here. The only problem is without it, there is no hope.
People in a really bad way need something to cling onto. With no religion what would it be?

Chocolate?

 

[Silk]

Well it's generally down to greed that humanity has enacted conflict.

Borders are established to try to make a point of stating what is yours and what isn't.

A great deal of human conflict involved one bunch of humans wanting to move into the territory of another and to expand its borders.

Well that's true, but actual "man made borders" are a relatively recent phenomenon.

 

[Badger]

The most "attractive" religion for me is the one that is the least intrusive. So a religion that doesn't involve attending a place of worship, praying x number of times a day, wearing certain clothes, not cutting hair, forcing people to marry etc. etc.

This is obviously all irrelevant anyway as I'm an atheist.

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

Well that's true, but actual "man made borders" are a relatively recent phenomenon.

On piece of paper true enough.

But the concept has existed for a long, long time. Just back then it was a river, a valley or a outcrop of rocks that defined the boundaries.

Crossing them did have consequences though.

It's a reminder that we are very much part of the animal kingdom.

 

[spig100963]

Chocolate?

Which type?
No Choclatism.

 

[BadFish]

Religion is all the bad things people have said on here. The only problem is without it, there is no hope.
People in a really bad way need something to cling onto. With no religion what would it be?

Football?

 

[Silk]

What does it matter what anyone believes in if they are happy and harming nobody.

People don't simply "resort" to believing in something.

There's no such thing as "the real world". You merely live in your version of it.

To a certain extent that is true. But there are limits. For example it doesn't matter how fervently you believe that eight-legged mushrooms built the great wall of china. It isn't true. There are and must be things that are true or false, irrespective of what people actually believe.