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Originally posted by PR3SSUR3
Islam essentially follows the Ten Commandments.
I think I have already put it to you that the exploitation of religion has far wider and more devastating consequences than ideas that might be sparked through watching a violent film, and that the unneccessity of religion to be able to practice positive living makes religion, to use the phrase again, more bother than it is worth. Millions of people are not raped and killed because of a movie. A violent book would be a better analogy, such as The Bible or The Qur'an which fling flesh and blood about with such reckless abandon amidst their holy and influential teachings.
People always need a reason to kill, and religions we do not need are the biggest reason. Therefore they can be indicted and blamed as an ill conceived ideology that simply does not work because it underestimates the erratic behaviour of humans and blows up in the face of all concerned, whether it is through criminal misuse in life or the fantastical promises that are not realised upon death.
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They are similar to violent films in that they take the blame away from personal responsibility, as I already said. People may or may not need a reason to kill, there've been plenty of murders that had little to no motive. And blaming religion for murder ignores the many people who are reasonable and well adjusted ("Oh, but if they're religious then they're
not reasonable or well adjusted lol :rolleyes:") people who are religious and DON'T hate or kill or hurt people. As for 'religions we do not need', some people need them. That's why we (maybe not you) keep hearing about all these people that were helped by whatever religion. SOME people need it.
Again, religion its self hasn't hurt anybody. People have. People are the problem. If religion were the problem, then there'd be far fewer, if any, religious people who haven't done anything wrong. Blaming religion is ignorant and bigoted.