Why is religion...

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(07-11-2017, 02:19 AM)Nebuchadnezzar Wrote: Organized Religion - wants everyone to go to Heaven or wherever that religion's utopia is. Yes, homosexuals as well, It's not the person but the sin. Also, all sin is the same to God, homosexuality is not a unique sin.
Nationalism - wants only their nationality to survive and to destroy the rest.

If you can't see that, there is no hope for you.

That is what most of the religious doctrines and theologies espouse. And some individuals get that. It is rarely how the religious organizations behave. The group dynamic changes things.

The transition of changing a religion from a set of guidelines for an individual to read, elect and absorb to a set of guidelines for running a group, community or even a country befouls the original intent of the message. For example: sin is something and individual does, not a group.