Yes, they are. He was saved from religion!

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Also you’re still a small child so you don’t have the deductive reasoning skills yet to fully comprehend the conversation outside of just your own personal feelings and anecdotes. You should google what logical fallacies are and start from there.

Religion is evil. It requires people to put their delusion of a god above empathy for fellow humans. Why can't you just love without using god?

They contributed to the spread of cult belief. That's a bad thing no matter how you twist it.

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Yes it is. Downvote

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I'm sorry you had a traumatic experience as a child with someone's interpretation of religion. But does that mean we should abolish it? Some people have trauma from school, dentists, piano teachers and Boy Scout leaders. Should all of those be abolished as well?

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You forgot the millions and millions of other victims. Read the news once.

Peace in the belief that maybe all of our lives and experience don't just end with us. Belief that everyone is part of something bigger and eternal.

Religion not necessary

Being a part of humanity fulfills that, not religion.

With all due respect that's not the case for everyone love. I firmly believe that as long as you're not hurting yourself or others you're entitled to your thoughts and beliefs and if something brings you peace nobody should mind.

Sense of community as well. I'm definitely not a Christian but I believe this is the case across most if not all religions.

Religion not necessary

There are millions of secular communities. No need for religion to have that.

Many religions donate to charities and invite their members to do service projects. That’s just one. Religion isn’t terrible in itseld

You can donate to charity and do service projects outside of religion as well, so nothing unique there.

I’m just saying something fundamentally evil wouldn’t do that

The mafia are very big on charity….

There are a lot of non-religious organizations that donate to charities and do service projects as well. The question is "what is an advantage that can only exist because religion exists?".

My mafia quote was in response to someone who said that a fundamentally evil person wouldn’t give to charity. This is demonstrably wrong

Truly generous people do charitable work without the threat of hell or promise of heaven. Empathy is all one needs. Religion just helps sociopaths feel better.

Religion not necessary

A. Grammar, B. Not everything HAS to be “necessary”. Tv shows aren’t necessary, but you probably love them like everyone else, even bp itself isn’t necessary but here you are.

A. I asked for an advantage where religion was necessary. Community, charity, and comfort from the coldness of reality are not found in religion, but in the company of other humans. The only role religion has to play here is to bring people into one room - and looking at the decline of religion it doesn’t even seem very good at doing that any more. B. You can stick your grammar up your a**e

Ok yeah, the grammar thing is unwarranted but I feel like people who belong to a religion shouldn’t be mocked. There is not any real evidence that religion helps society, but we’re allowed to have things that aren’t beneficial but just THERE , ya know.

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Oh got it, those people are the worst and we need less of them

Then I wonder if you could explain to me what original sin is all about and why your God is ok with eternal damnation. Blame it on Satan all you want, but certainly your all-knowing, all-loving God could put an end to this if he really is the creator and ruler of everything.

There are huge numbers of Christians who don't believe in original sin or eternal damnation.

I'll pray on it.

The religious choose. HUGE difference.