Christianity

Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
A self-loathing person with pronounced sado-masochistic tendencies might read the Golden Rule as an incitement to harm other people.

Otherwise, the really hard thing to explain is why adherents of an obviously non-violent religion have managed to be as beastly as the next bunch of heathens.

Thinking of the British Empire and the White Man's burd ...[text shortened]... in the guise of philanthropy, or was the religion used as a smoke-screen to gull the credulous?

Originally posted by dags
Ummm, not all heathens are violent 🙂