[madnak]

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I'm not a religious man at all, but I wonder why some people spend a lot of time and energy trying to blame religion for all the bad things in this world when alternative explanations (using Occam's razor) are just more plausible than the "evilness" of religion. I know pretty intelligent and logic people who just lose it when they start talking about religion and how religious people are stupid and evil at the same time !?!. If they were molested by a priest or something I understand, but if not, it's hard to understand being that zealous.

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On that note, I think people greatly underestimate the damage that religion is regularly responsible for at the personal level. It's not about suicide bombers. It's about dysfunctional relationship models, motivation through guilt and fear, and heavy-handed condemnation (leading to persecution of condemned individuals and alienation from condemned groups).