I also agree with John that it is the absolute teachings of Islam that is the Cancer of this planet.
Will the supressed Cancer return?
Religions are supposed to create a moral direction to human beings.
Bombing and legislating have 0, NO chance at all, and educating is slim to none as a chance. Religion is superstition. As long as people can think independently they will create superstitions in their minds. However, I do believe that serious thinking people can show one idiotic set of superstitious beliefs as bogus, and that is Islam. There are distinct soft spots in their "Book" Concentrate on some things like enforced membership, no criticism, incredibly cruel practices.
"Free thought as you put it would have great trouble creating any serious religion in a vacuum of the sort of irrational non logical minds required to create believers".
If that were true religions would never have taken root. Human's minds have a need to explain to themselve those things they don't understand. That's true that today, there is far less that, and is not reasonably explained perhaps that is why religions are dieing. EDUCATION is the secret weapon. However, there can be No idly made rumored discoveries until 100% repeatability or provable scientific proof is available.![]()
IT only takes one misstatement, to destroy all the educational progress that can be achieved involving superstition and scientific proof.Humans are quite odd lot of critters
We seem to assign and place superstition in place of sound facts when possible, rather than study the facts and come up with sensible conclusions. (That's humanity in general, not individuals.)
Some of my hypothesis is because the peoples of the midddle east Syrians, Arabs,etc. are NOT a stupid people; advanced mathematics the sciences began with them, yet so many fell, as if in a spell, for that evil book of Mohammed, the Quaran, as being undisputable, or debate-able. And in fact enforced its murderous preachings. Of course I am being a tad lazy not explaining all my other possible reasoning for the viciousness of their dislike (hate) for the Westerner's way of life in this discussion.
The Native Americans of the USA called it the great Spirit!. Today we know a bit more about the sciences. But with NO prompting from anyone those early peoples created a being in their minds that supersceded themselves. It is that primitive thinking that you nor "I" can totally defeat, that thinking will continuously reoccur without prompting in some insecure individuals. Then such like thinking individuals, will gather a circle of individuals together into groups, or tribes just as they do today and in all of human history. Humans are herd critters, there are always some who do not fit in that herd mold aethiests and agnostics.



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