07-27-2003, 05:00 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-27-2003, 06:42 PM by Tiffany_Scott.)
feryar Wrote:I often think of how nice and peaceful it would be in this world if there were no such thing as religions
In the Middle East thingy, I don't think there is a "good and evil" or "right and wrong" side in the conflict. They're all wrong and they're all evil. OK that might be pulling it a little too far, but both sides are killing off innocent people, and unless one of them breaks the spiral of violence it will just keep going.
Nice and peaceful. :blink:
This world all throughout the 20th century right on up to the present day has been subjected to numerous forms of government--most notably the old Soviet Union and still today China--which attempted to enforce your prejudicial views of religion onto their respective populaces. They utilized guns and gulags and guards and german shepherds, but most of all they used the deadliest weapon which modern governments currently possess in their arsenals: PUBLIK SKEWLS. et al, brainwashing kids via government-chosen propaganda with the intent of making all of them share the same skewed (many would simply say "left-wing") attitudes towards human beings and human behavior...
And...
...all those attempts...
...FAILED.
Miserably.
The death, despair, destruction and despondency which forced atheism helped bring about to these countries still sickens me whenever I think about it. You sound like that long-dead rock star John Lennon, singing your own version of "Imagine there's no Heaven, it isn't hard to do."
Without Heaven in at least SOME people's hearts you wind up with a literal Hell on Earth. History has shown us this, yet amazingly there is never any shortage of people around who claim that religion is the world's REAL problem, and the secret to true happiness lies in a Godless world filled with Godless people all cheerily buzzing away headed only toward the blackness of the grave as the final and forever end to their existance... :(