Ah the classic logical error of thinking “if some A leads to B, then B must lead to A”.

The more accurate picture of religion is that some murdering assholes are religious and some murdering assholes are not religious. Whether you are religious or not will not change whether you are a murdering asshole. Religion will give you a great excuse to kill others though.

Similarly, some religious people are kind and honest. Some religious people are not kind and honest. Some non religious people are kind and honest, and some non religious people are not kind and honest.

The slickest trick of religious dogma is to make those believers think that religion puts the good in others and takes out the bad. This is not how it works.

Religion takes credit for the good in people that would be there anyway and blames a “lack of faith” for those with “evil in them”. Religion completely dismisses those who are religious and are evil (just look at history for a looooooong list of examples) as well as those people who are good and non-religious.

I suggest you read this a few times as I know from experience it takes time to grasp.

#thinkdangerously

#grownostr