There are not many professions that seem to attract as many paedophiles as working for The Church. There are a disproportionate number of paedophiles doing God's work, and The Catholic Church has a dubious record of dealing with them.
Kiddie fiddling - nature's alternative to dedicated celibacy?
http://www.answers.com/topic/roman-c...ex-abuse-cases
So there is no definitive version of any religion - in some you can be gay when you also cannot, in some we evolved from apes when we were also created in 6 days... it seems many want to shape their religion to suit themselves. And why not? Anything is possible in such mindsets - just go create your own, or modify an existing one.
I do not care about changing anybody's fundamental beliefs - but it is regrettably impossible to give much dignity to such a logically flawed system. I would say the learning about and understanding of things through evidence and experience is the most productive way of spending one's lifetime - if I did not think this was 'better', I would allocate a lot of this valuable time to religious theories instead. You do not need to 'believe' in a successful manuscript or how a tree works or why there is an eclipse - just do it, research it or watch it happen. It's all biomechanics and maths.
Of course you can 'prove' things - what a ridiculous statement. Yet, a common one from those who cannot handle finalities and certainties because they interfere with a belief system that everything must remain so mysterious and inconclusive, possibly because the scientists who make these discoveries also discover destructive things like nuclear bombs or unethical breakthroughs like stem cell research (don't tell me - there are religions where all that stuff is allowed too). Never let some mystical fantasy be interrupted by the results of years and years of dedicated technologically aided research.
If its generalisation that bothers you, let me direct you to The Oxford English Dictionary: human recognition of superhuman controlling power of a personal God or Gods entitled to obedience and worship. Granted, it also refers simply to a particular system of faith and worship, but when it all boils down to it people from various religions are conducting irrational rituals, propogating unsolid, unlikely, unproven myths and warning against non-compliance like sufferers from OCD must complete their daily tasks 'so everything will be alright'. What is the point - togetherness? Well-being? What changes are made to the world by faith in invisible, omnipotent deities apart from new routines and respect of 'good' rules that decency and common sense can provide in a far less authoritarian fashion and without suggesting we are 'wrong' and 'sinners' if we do not always follow them?
Well there is global war, for starters, and the aforementioned new concentration of child sex offenders in The Catholic Church at least.
I was kind of joking about the War on Religion, since so many people follow one to varying degress. However since you are suggesting I'm a Nazi, I'm changing it to a War on Hippies.
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