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Originally Posted by Freebase Dali
I'm such a heathen for thinking what I just thought.
But yea, I have no problem with people who believe what they believe for the betterment of themselves. I do have a problem when people extend that belief to other people, like their own children, and it becomes an issue of safety and control. And religious organizations taking advantage of faith, for profit.
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But if you truly believed in your religion wouldn't you believe it was for the benefit of others if they followed it therefore inclining you to pressure others into others? I just don't agree with such rigid ethics and morals of organized religion. Morality should be developed much like a science to maximize the well being of humanity. It may be hard to get pure data for something like this but there are certain things we can rule off quickly: things along the line of promoted violence or unprovable beliefs preventing stem cell research.