07-10-2017, 05:08 PM
(07-09-2017, 05:57 PM)Dill Wrote:
Yes, it does. But it also does the opposite. Some strains of Christianity and Buddhism, for example, have been massive supports for pacifism.
If we got rid of religious identity groups, others types would replace them. Human require group identities. I do think that we can be smarter about how we "group" up though, if we learn from history.
I read an article one time that was talking about the topic of this thread and the author said something at one point that caught my attention. I don't remember it word for word but he basically said that those who criticize religion have the advantage of being able to say who has killed in God's name because no one can really say how many people decided not to do bad things because they believe in God.
He was essentially begging the question of how do you count the amount of bad things that didn't happen because of a belief in God vs the amount of bad things that did happen because of a belief in God? And really you can't. It's a variable that is impossible to account for.
