Poverty Can Cause Brain Damage

[Ginger_Warrior]

Is there a thread on OT which doesn't turn into some petty "religion/conservatism/capitalism vs atheism/liberatarianism/socialism" farce?

 

 

 

Even I'm getting bored of them.

 

 

 

Ah, but Ginger - apart from Runescape [discussion of which is banned here], Religion and Politics are the only things worth talking about.

 

It's not so much that that's annoying me.

 

 

 

It's the mass, sweeping, senseless generalisations that get flung about in such debates. Comments like "Sell the TV and get off your [wagon] and go outside", or "If poor people aren't earning enough, they should work harder". I just find it incredibly distasteful and disrespectful to talk about individual human beings like that, especially in times where poor people are really struggling because of the current crisis.

[Lenticular_J]

Actualy, though religious groups do that, without religion, we would have had no Crusades, no "9/11" bombings, and no Holocaust. Religion does far more harm than good.

 

Yeah, people would NEVER find a cause for war outside of religion. All us stupid religious folks are just too busy killing each other to learn like you edumacated folk. We'll just go marry our cousins now.

 

 

 

I guess we'll also play with our Vatican, Temple of Solomon, Jerusalem, Mecca, and Vashnir in the corner.

 

 

 

Is there a thread on OT which doesn't turn into some petty "religion/conservatism/capitalism vs atheism/liberatarianism/socialism" farce?

 

No.

[Housepig]

Actualy, though religious groups do that, without religion, we would have had no Crusades, no "9/11" bombings, and no Holocaust. Religion does far more harm than good.

 

Yeah, people would NEVER find a cause for war outside of religion. All us stupid religious folks are just too busy killing each other to learn like you edumacated folk. We'll just go marry our cousins now.

 

 

 

I guess we'll also play with our Vatican, Temple of Solomon, Jerusalem, Mecca, and Vashnir in the corner.

 

 

 

You have drasticaly misunderstood me. I was not saying that all rerligous activities is bad, or that all religious people are violent war-mongers--infact, the majority are not. I was only saying that while religion helped us in primitive times, it is no longer needed, and--while it may provide moral values--it causes ignorance and prejudice.

[Lenticular_J]

That doesn't really sound like a misunderstanding to me. You're scapegoating religion for one of the most basic, terrible things about the human race - our ability to hate blindly. As long as there are two people on this planet, they could be the exact same, but they will find something to hate about each other.

 

 

 

You can't brush aside the beliefs of billions.