I'm not going to take any approach on telling you which I am for, but one thing you need to understand is that everything we think is morally right or wrong, is just our perspective of it. Some other people/things/beings. Could find think of morals in an entirely different way, and it would be "right" for them, including letting people die. No one idea/perspective could or is right or wrong, and nothing/no one has the authority to make that choice. 

Hm, I might post a whole rant on religion here. Here we go.

I have a pretty good theory about religion, I believe early civilisations made that up to answer unanswered questions. Science weren't there yet, and people couldn't really imagine something else than some guy creating everything, so better worship him. But, by nature, some people hated change, so when someone came up with science, people had difficulty accepting it... It got better in the recent history though. But nevertheless, I think religion is still part of everyday's life, like place names or funerals. The afterlife is not quite understood, what happens after death? Nothing? Pretty sure many would prefer believing there's something, that the soul of your loved one is at a better place, even if you know there's nothing. The memory of the dead lives as long as someone remembers them, after all.

Reminds me, almost two years ago, I got hospitalized for lung problems, I stayed there for 167 hours. Yeah, that was boring, but I had visits. And one of them was a priest. The hospital has a service where once a week, a priest would visit all the patients. He discussed with me, that was kinda cool. I realized, even though we are in a lay state here, they would still hire a priest, because people would find a priest very reconforting, especially when you're approaching death. Actually, it's pretty nice the hospital would send someone to visit you just for talking about stuff. They're there just for you.

Today, I would say I believe in God as much as I would believe in Princess Celestia or Madoka Kaname, all of them can teach you valuable life lessons you can follow. (Yes I'm comparing religion with fictional shows lol. If they weren't characters of TV shows I think they would make pretty good gods of some religion.) Just be careful in what you believe. It's up to you to decide what is right or wrong. Yes, the Bible may be full of contradictions, but it actually laid out the basis of modern civilisation and what we collectively assume as right or wrong, like killing people and stuff like that. We all agree killing people is bad, right? Or else maybe everyone would have guns and would liberally kill everyone else? I dunno, the impact religion had might be deeper than we thought.

And this is why, my friends, I still consider myself Catholic. I grew up Catholic and I understood what it meant to me.

Quote from: XiiR3CR34T10N on September 30, 2013, 11:21:40 pm

I'm not going to take any approach on telling you which I am for, but one thing you need to understand is that everything we think is morally right or wrong, is just our perspective of it. Some other people/things/beings. Could find think of morals in an entirely different way, and it would be "right" for them, including letting people die. No one idea/perspective could or is right or wrong, and nothing/no one has the authority to make that choice. 

I understand morals are relative but people don't have to die. The only one thing death is good for is evolution. If we were created by a god, death wouldn't exist.

Well, I don't hate Muslims, but Islam has violent precepts at it's core. The reason why it's progressing so fast is because of that : Islam encourages the use of violence to spread itself. BTW if you look at terrorists then most of them are Islam fanatics.
Another thing is how they treat women. They consider that women are inferior to men and are here only for sex, reproduction and home tasks. While I don't consider women nor anybody else equal to me (we are all different and one of a kind), I believe that no hierarchy exists between human beings.

Well, I don't hate Muslims, but Islam has violent precepts at it's core. The reason why it's progressing so fast is because of that : Islam encourages the use of violence to spread itself.
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One last thing : there are only a couple Nobel prices won by muslims. So the proportion of intelligent people adept of this religion is ridiculously low.