Has General Discussion Been Hostile to Religious Believers recently?

[Zorra]

89. No. You posted an OP about religion being dissed in GD. I'm trying to

discuss the some of the reasons why religion is getting dissed in GD.

The reason I asked if you were paid by the Church to post here is that I had to be sure you were debating from a personal standpoint that you genuinely believed, and not supporting an organization for profit.

My entire point here is that the reason religions gets dissed is because they often promote harmful things, that cause their followers to support doing harmful things to innocent people.

Most DUers are liberals. If the followers of religions didn't do bad things to innocent people, we would not be having this discussion.

I'm personally trying to understand why people voluntarily support religious organizations that do things that they believe are wrong.

If someone really believes in their heart that something that their religion teaches, or does, is not in accordance to the will of God, why bother following a clearly misguided religion that doesn't really get it? Why not simply join a religious organization that does not support harming others, where you can engage in fellowship with like minded individuals who understand that it is wrong to harm innocent people?

If you want to know why liberals here may diss religion, consider the possibility that it is because many of them want to prevent people who believe in, and support, religions from causing further harm to innocent people under the auspices that it is their religion that causes them to try to control and harm others.

Yes, many people believe all thing religious or spiritual beliefs are total woo. But they wouldn't be trashing religion or spiritual beliefs here if religious people would stop hurting others in the name of religion. Because they really couldn't care less about what you believe in, as long as what you believe in doesn't hurt innocent people.

It's not rocket science.Most of the trash talk we've seen here lately stemmed from Muslims recently killing people in the name of religion, and from the Pope telling us it is wrong to insult religions that support harming innocent people, and to insult the religion of those who deliberately harm to others because they believe that is what their religion wants them to do.