Originally posted by Suzianne
How many times do I have to point out that this is not the fault of religion? These things are done by evil men, not religion. Religion is only an excuse for them. If there were no religion, they'd simply find another excuse, maybe race, or skin color.
All that goes to show is humanity is not spiritual. Humanity is political, territorial and hateful mostly. The alleged appearance of a deity 2000 years ago did little in that regard. People still hate, even those professing to be christian.
It tells me a lot about religion that there would be some kind of deity that would first, start a religion in some remote part of the world where that was supposed to lead people to forgiveness and heaven but thousands of years go by and even now in the 21st century there are people around the world who have never even heard the name of Jesus Christ much less be part of that congregation.
I have always said a REAL deity, not this man made caricature of one in the Abrahamic religions, would have the power to speak to every sentient being on the planet in their own language, saying something like look dudette, this is how it is....
The fact there are so many religions diabolically opposed to one another tells me plainly no deity was involved in the manufacturing of ANY religion, whether it was a tribe in Mexico 2000 years ago or Aborigines in Australia or the Karen in Thailand, or Jews in the middle east, all with extremely different stories of how we got here and such and what to expect of deities.
The thing is, they cannot all be right. And for your particular deity to be right, there has to be something fishy in Denmark about it. To give this alleged gift of heaven and forgiveness and mercy and such to a tiny fraction of the population of Earth is suspect in the extreme. But you view the spread of Christianity as validation of the truth of such deity when in absolute fact it was humans who spread the word about Christ not Christ.
In fact it was Paul and the religion bears so much of his philosophy it should rightfully be called Paulism but that's another story.
In short, they can't all be right about religion but they sure as hell can ALL be totally wrong.