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Originally Posted by TYSON
No people's selfish desires who manipulate religion is the cause of those deaths. Like said before if religion wasn't around human beings would find another means of manipulation to murder and kill millions. Morals would be skewed if not for an thought ever existing of repercussions of an afterlife punishment. Do u think most a scared of prison then hell?
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No no no you are connecting morals with religion again...religion does not grant you better morals, because as you said religion can be manipulated...it is the PERSON who has the morals, not the religion and not because of the religion...religion can and should encourage those morals but it is not the creator of them.
And to your first point, I could argue that really the people doing good are manipulating the words just as much, but I will concede that you are right that people would continue to kill and murder with or without God, so how can you say having a God prevents it? People who have psychological disorders will find Any reason to kill and hurt, religion is the only reason where they can justify it, even if it is a manipulated justification, nothing else could even nearly justify genocide other than religion, there is nothing else someone could point to and say 'This told me if I kill I will be rewarded'.....you know what I mean? Good people are good people, bad people are bad people....religion has both good and bad, if you want to say it creates the morals then you have to say it also creates the immoral, otherwise your argument is soooo biased.