Religion started out as a way to bring people together. However, most deaths, destruction, war, genocides have resulted due to blind belief in religion. Hence, religion is one of the biggest evils. That applies to all religions. Even communism.
We need open-mindedness, belief in SCIENCE and LOGIC, and HUMANITY as the new religions, if we are to live in a non-violent, peaceful way and make progress.
RE:Religion is evil
by Abhimanyu Ganguly on Apr 24, 2008 06:58 PM Permalink
what will we do with the commies, that's the biggest problem...the whole of India is looking at us, we have to change things for the sake of Bengal for the sake of INDIA !!!
RE:RE:Religion is evil
by Abhimanyu Ganguly on Apr 24, 2008 07:08 PM Permalink
dada ami kintu false noi....Tathagata o false noi...raaga raagi korben na, aamra satyobaadi...michhe katha koi neko :)
RE:Religion is evil
by balaord on Apr 24, 2008 07:02 PM Permalink
Mr.Ayan Roy, the principal horrors of the 20th century came almost exclusively from strictly secular regimes. Leopold II of Belgium in the Congo,Hitler, Mussolini, Lenin and Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot.
It was Europeans who visited their world wars twice upon the rest of the world -- two devastating global conflicts with no remote parallels in Islamic history
RE:RE:Religion is evil
by Ayan Roy on Apr 24, 2008 07:18 PM Permalink
Firstly - you missed the concepts of "HUMANITY". and "OPEN-MINDEDNESS". These rulers also were blined by the religions of power and money!
Secondly, millions of people and hundreds of civilizations - Persians, North Africans, Aztecs, Mayas and countless others, have been obliterated in the name of religion. Forgotten the "Crusades"? What about the "Inquisition"? "Jihad" has been going on since Islam started! Millions of women in medieval Europe were killed as they were suspected to be "witches". Hindus themselves spread a reign of terror against the Buddhists during the 2nd-3rd century A.D. and managed to drive Buddhism out of the country! All this happened due to a false sense of religious superiority and blind belief in religion. In the 20th century, all that changed was that political ideology, money and power became the new religions. The key factor being "NARROW-MINDEDNESS, INTOLERANCE, and BLIND_FAITH".
