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Originally posted by PR3SSUR3
Reprise: nobody needs religion - all its positive actions and inspiration can be achieved without it, though experience and ambition. It is not a sentient thing, so of course it cannot rape and murder by itself either. I've already stated that a violent film created as fictional art and entertainment cannot carry the can for violent acts as religion - created so profoundly as a fact and a way of life - so repeatedly does. If such a disproportionate amount of people begin bloody wars through an interpretation of Zombie Creeping Flesh the matter might have to be looked at again.
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People have been helped by religion. THEY apparently needed it.
The religions that you refer to are a way of life, one that is against those wars and murder et cetera. If there is a way of life that says "Hey, don't kill people" and the people who claim to follow said way of life say "Okay" then kill people, how is that way of life to blame? Who CARES if it's based on invisible men in the sky or the souls of dead aliens or anything like that? Hell, people can believe that the whole universe is on the back of a giant turtle if they want. If the message is "don't kill people", and people who claim to follow that religion kill people, the religion is not to blame. The people doing the killings is. I don't care HOW ridiculous the beliefs of the religion seem to everyone else.
EDIT: and re: the "disproportionate" remark, do you have statistics regarding the amount of people who have killed and murdered and started wars in the name of God/Allah/Whatever vs. the total number of believers? I don't just mean the fact that all you may hear about is the violent ones, I mean concrete facts and numbers.