We're territorial

Originally posted by @velns
If all religions, their history, their cultural impacts, their architectures, and all of our memories of them were instantly removed, we would still be killing each other, still hating, still invading, still terrorising. Religion is a symptom and channel of hate not the primary cause of it as some would like to comfortably believe.

Makes very much sense.

Different religions can very well be functional side by side in a community. Different religion doesn't automatically mean war nor conflicts. Only if someone use religion for political reasons to start and escalate a conflict.

Originally posted by @fabianfnas
Makes very much sense.

Different religions can very well be functional side by side in a community. Different religion doesn't automatically mean war nor conflicts. Only if someone use religion for political reasons to start and escalate a conflict.

Religion is lens for our hopes and fears, it provides a scene of clarity for some people which, once sufficiently established, is subsequently difficult for the individual to relinquish. Christianity and Islam are differenciated not just by their religious dogma but also how the followers are influenced through secular social norms.

Originally posted by @velns
Religion is lens for our hopes and fears, it provides a scene of clarity for some people which, once sufficiently established, is subsequently difficult for the individual to relinquish. Christianity and Islam are differenciated not just by their religious dogma but also how the followers are influenced through secular social norms.

Theocracies are never good. Then it doesn't matter if it is a christian or a moslem or a jew theocracy or anything else. Theocracies is always bad.

Originally posted by @fmf
[6:58 into the video] [b]"Something that often happens with Dawkins and Harris is that they attribute war and conflict to religious motivation. I find that interesting because, first of all, chimpanzees go to war, so we could lay that right on the table and say, so much for the religious theory. They are territorial. We're territorial. You could consider religi ...[text shortened]... iment is only an aspect of battles rooted in territoriality, and not the fundamental motivation?

Wrong!

The sole purpose Hitler tried to conquer the world was to make you all Christians cuz Hitler loved Jesus