Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.
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I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.
Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
I think religion has caused so much catastrophe in the world.
A lot of harm has come in all eras from people attached to one view of 'spiritual' truth.
There isn't a religion on earth that isn't damaging to the human race because every one of them is patriarchal and every one eliminates more than half of the human race - women. They are all oppressors of women.
Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings who don't have all the answers to think that they do.
Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion.
Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous bent that we have as human beings.
The tension between the essence of spiritual teachings and the harmful fundamentalism that often arises in the name of religion is an issue that has engaged my mind practically as far back as I can remember.
Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.
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