Question for those who believe all religion should be abolished?

[Angelica Jolly]

Hi,

Have you ever met someone who is completely incapable of running their own lives? I have met many a person like this.

Only religion or the military seems to help them. There are people for whom religion is a better option than to be allowed to make their own decisions. If religion were completely abolished, these poor lost souls would have no one to tell them what to think and how to behave. Although religion is not necessarily for people who are capable of independent, productive thought and action, it does have its place no?


What say ye?

[Ken]

... perhaps. But at the same time people can learn to be more disciplined and self-reliant. Being able to think for oneself and make decisions is important. Without these abilities one can easily be taken advantage of in life and led astray.

One should ideally not be turning to religion or the military, either, as a way of abnegating responisbility for ones life. Religion is geared at serving god and humanity, as a whole, and the military at serving one's country ... not the other way around.

(Ken = non-religious, just to let you know ;-)

[dpaterso]

This question was copied from another site's article:

http://www.bahamasissues.com/showthread.php?p=422637

Angelica and her India Tourist Board sigline spam will be leaving us now.

-Derek