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Originally Posted by bacalaopeace
I have trouble thinking of any religion that has hardly any good ideas.
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Originally Posted by kerowo
Then you should be more informed on the subject before you make a fool of yourself.
Let's hear a serious rebuttal. Take Christianity for example, which takes the well known common sense Confucian principle of don't do to other people what they don't want done to them and twists it into the egocentric, immoral principle do to others what you want done to yourself. And that's its strongest claim to a "good idea". Islam teaches no taxation for believers and equality of all believers, but conquer the nonbelievers, which is something like the Republican party platform. Judaism tells us to study a lot and that I'm a Jew but by son isn't because I married an infidel and didn't circumcise him and I violate all sorts of other rules made a long time ago.
All of them (and the rest) promote a self-centered, tribalistic, sectarian worldview that enters naturally into conflict with outsiders and reserves special privileges for followers, and they erect greedy institutions to defend these "good ideas".
And on top of all that there's all this nonsense about deities and afterlife.