a lie you hear about christianity

[Batty]

Originally Posted by Destroyer

I knew that would be exactly how that was taken. My disdain for religion came around a long time before that example of hypocrisy which I used above. I came to my own conclusions at a young age that religion was simply a business, which is exactly what it is.
And now, it's a cause for people to commit all kinds of atrocities that they use religious beliefs to justify. Morality isn't derived from religion, Roy, it precedes it.

I feel as if all of those things are really beside the point. I'm not going to defend any of the horrible things that have happened in the name of a religion, nor would I try to with slavery or any of the other things that happened before we got where we are now as a race. What do those things have to do with where we are now? Whenever you have trouble acknowledging both pros and cons of some thing, you lose your ability to consider things rationally.

Basically, I see your points and they have merit but you only acknowledge the cons of religion and that isn't rational.

Fair?