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Originally Posted by xluciusx
Personally, I would love to be the first to say this, people need to realize that their religious beliefs are a bit outdated. You know like 2000 or more years. I don't believe in god, I don't follow any religion and I think the world would be a better place if people would just move on and let the old religions die. Yes religion has in the past done some good for the world, but it has also been holding back science for thousands of years as well as giving crazy people "reasons" to kill other people.
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Religions themselves aren't the problem, its mans' screwed up interpretations of those religions that are the issue.
Other than that, I totally agree with you, for many years now, I've been trying to convince people religion has held back society and technology myself.
Reminds me of a quote by one of my favorite authors, Nobel winning physicist Steven Weinberg -
“With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.”