6 reasons why religion is bad for humanity

[breaker]

why does this matter? UK has a high rate of knife crimes russia bullies their neighbours, africa is poor! portugal is friendly but religious... bulgaria has lots of gypsy beggars, australia is racist the map means nothing.

You said without religion world would be evil i just disproved you.Have you seen the crime rate in the middle east or africa or south america.

Uk crime rate is way lower than Usa.

The majority of the atheists coutnries have lower crime rates than the religious ones this is a facts,

Even some are champions of low crimes like japan southkorea,iceland,sweeden,finland,ect.

What more evidence do you want without religion world is more developed ,lower crime rates,higher morality,less evil.

As i said religion is a drug less drugs more healthy populations .

[breaker]

correction albania was forcibly put into atheism

I am so sorry for you ,as i said religion forces you ,but you can not understand what religion is in the first place so this conversation with you has become irrelevant.

[Atvend]

true but face it even without religion people are going to be evil.

Why, do you think people just wake up one day and they decide to do evil things out of the blue? That's a very naive and black and white view on human psychology. And it's even more naive to think that just because you plug in God and the "judgement of sins" into the equation people are going to be scared into being good and peaceful. Being a human yourself you should know very well that if the consequences of your actions are not imminent, there is much less pressure for you to act. It's of the same nature as procrastination. Something that is not going to happen any time soon loses priority over something happening in a shorter period of time. A criminal shooting an innocent person is not going to think: "oh but God may punish me for this when I die" but how to escape the police after the deed instead.

[breaker]

i live in the UK knife crimes almost happens everyday, its something that usually pops up in the news. so no your map is irrelevant, I know someone who is in prison he didn't care about god he only started to become religious because of his guilt.

statictics are not based on one individual perception.

Pakistan one of the most religious countries in the world has 2 million drug addicts in islamabad alone.

As i said religion is a drug criminals usually want drugs because they can not bear the responibility for their actions.

You are simply proving my previous statements.

[breaker]

Why, do you think people just wake up one day and they decide to do evil things out of the blue? That's a very naive and black and white view on human psychology. And it's even more naive to think that just because you plug in God and the "judgement of sins" in the equation people are going to be scared into being good and peaceful. Being a human yourself you should know very well that if the consequences of your actions are not imminent, there is much less pressure for you to act. It's of the same nature as procrastination. Something that is not going to happen any time soon loses priority over something happening in a shorter period of time. A criminal shooting an innocent person is not going to think: "oh but God may punish me for this when I die" but how to escape the police after the deed instead.

Probably this girl is very young and does not have a clear understanding of how things in the world work.

I suggest here to study science and she will not need a religion to distinguish right from wrong.

[Ianus]

One reason it's enough: religion turns off the reason

[breaker]

but uk is not very religious..i LIVE in the uk knife crimes are very very common everyday news.. so why claim least religious countries are safe? drugs in the UK are also common.

why can't we both admit its the individuals?

In pakistan you will be thrown acid in your face ,your head cut off and stoned to death if you change your religion and you are worried about knife crimes.

why cant we both admit that your are basing your opinions not on facts,Can i ask what religion do you belive if a may.

[breaker]

watch these video

[Darth Revan]

It seems useful to me. That's my primary concern.

[Shepherd]

1. Tribalism is natural and healthy
2. I can honestly say I slightly prefer Iron Age values to the ones that cultural Marxists propose
3. The same happened "pre-religion" (if you can call it that) with Paganism.
4. You underestimate how much Churches really do for the public
5. I sort of agree with this
6. Thats a generalization, and just look to movements like the Protestant Reformation for remedies to that issue

I wish I could go more in depth but its 1am and I'm tired