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> IMO religion has done so much damage Actually the worst wars and killing events in history (WWI and WWII) were secular, technology driven. And religion has
by _xnmw 5y ago
> IMO religion has done so much damage
Actually the worst wars and killing events in history (WWI and WWII) were secular, technology driven.
And religion has cured far more than it caused. The statistics are pretty damn clear: religious people are happier, live longer, have bigger families, and score better on almost every measure of wellbeing.
- ithkuil 5y ago"With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion." -- Steven Weinberg
- netmonk 5y ago
- disgruntledphd2 5y agos/religion/ideology.
- ithkuil 5y agoYou could say that a religion is a special case of an ideology.
- disgruntledphd2 5y agoYeah basically. Personally I think religion is useful, but it's definitely a kind of ideology.
- roughly 5y agoThe Spanish Catholics wiped out the entire culture of the Maya and the Inca. Four copies of the Maya codexes remain because the church destroyed the rest. The Inca quipu were destroyed en masse - we’re just now re-learning that they were more than just accounting. Both the Spanish and American churches committed cultural genocide against American Indians on an enormous scale. The destruction wrought by the church on the world includes the intentional wholesale destruction of the indigenous culture and history of the entire Western Hemisphere, and that’s just part of the blood ledger for one particular sect of Christianity.
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- andresgaitan 5y agoI made my masters dissertation on the Spanish 'conquest' on the current territory of Colombia. It is a well established fact that it was illnesses (brought by Europeans, possibly by the rats on the boats) what actually killed the indigenous population in center and south America. Top of my head, only 10% of the indians survived the illnesses. The rest of the conquest was not due to the military genius of the Spanish, but rather that they allied with less powerful indian groups against the dominant indians groups. >>Both the Spanish and American churches committed cultural genocide against American Indians on an enormous scale. The indigenous populations were barbarians. They were cannibals, they tortured people sadistically. I am so grateful of what the Spanish did in America. I thank Spain and the church that they eradicated all those cultures and taught us Christianity.