[PLUG-TALK] Porn on the Net...

Paul Heinlein heinlein at madboa.com
Thu Oct 29 16:37:20 UTC 2009


On Thu, 29 Oct 2009, lauren.r.ball wrote:

> Aaron wrote:
>>
>> Religion is a handicap. Religion caused the middle ages. More human 
>> suffering has been caused needlessly by religion.  Religion has 
>> caused huge amounts of hate and for no reason forced people to do 
>> many things they didn't want. Religion has slowed technology at 
>> every chance possible. Causing needless paing and suffering by 
>> slowing medical advances.  Religion is the worst thing to happen to 
>> humanity.
>
> Just get the facts straight.  Religion is bad, but consider in the 
> 20th century approximately 180 million people were killed by their 
> own governments, this had nothing to do with religion.  Remember the 
> holocaust, Stalin, Chairman Mao, Pot Pol, etc.  Politics and some 
> ideologies seem worse than religion. Lauren

The road from idea -> ideology -> oppression is oft traveled. 
Christianity, Islam, Marxism, Capitalism, and Nationalism (to name a 
few) have all been abused in that manner. Sociopaths nearly always 
seek an ideological underpinning for their crimes.

It'd be interesting, perhaps, to see if ideas used in support of 
oppression have any common traits -- but the real issue is the 
sociopaths who create the oppression and the cowardly, comfort-loving 
masses who actively or tacitly follow them.

-- 
Paul Heinlein <> heinlein at madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/



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