Religion brings peace to many of us.

[mia]

[marylandblue]

1. Nice song

[wasupaloopa]

2. I use to play the CD from Oh Brother Where Art Thou

in my truck when I lived in the Lower Sierra Nevada Mtns. We lived in the boonies and one day driving down the road a woman was hitch hiking. She had run her car off the road into a ditch.

I picked her up and she smelled like a distillery.

That song was playing at the time and it must have gotten to her because she started crying while it played.

The area where we lived was very a religious rural area.

[mia]

3. There is nothing like a music to lift a person up.

And you showed her such kindness. Thank you for your message.

[murielm99]

4. I still playa that CD once in awhile. n/t

[Angry Dragon]

5. Religion should do that

[Voltaire2]

6. If that was all religion did it would be fine.

Unfortunately that is the least of it.

[Bretton Garcia]

7. Religion also brought war to billions of us.

The KKK for that matter, liked to burn crosses in the yards of people it didn't like.

To strongly support religion or Christianity, just for its peace-giving element, does not seem entirely right therefore.

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

8. Alison has a beautiful voice...

I listen to her sometimes with my folk music collection. I’m a atheist but her voice can elevate the inner mood.

[Act_of_Reparation]

9. Lots of things give people peace.

Not all of them are hinged on the premise we are born sick and commanded to be well.

[AtheistCrusader]

10. It also brings war and murder to many.

https://www.cnn.com/2016/11/21/africa/rwanda-catholic-church-apology/index.html

[trotsky]

11. It does.

But does that mean we can't criticize it?

[MineralMan]

12. That's true, no doubt.

However, it brings different things to others, I'm afraid. "Religion" is a very, very broad word. Not all religion is an agent for peace, unfortunately.

Even within general religions, such as Christianity, you'll find both peace-bringing and hatred-bringing. It's just too broad a word to have any universal meaning, frankly. Endorsing all of "religion" in general is probably not something that makes sense, I think.

[Bretton Garcia]

13. And even if we endorse specifically Christianity ...

in general,. then that still leaves us inadvertently encouraging the good and the bad in it.