Icelander said:

Maybe, without religion, humanity would forget spirituality and the ways toward it faster than it already does.

Highly unlikely IMO.

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On this way, they (the religions and the religious) will destroy themselves. No need to hurry.

The danger is that they take us all with them.

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So let's slow them to make them understand, bridge, research, explain and solve their differences and from those resolving hostilities. I am with you there

Diploid said:

I am very critical to religion too, but wouldn't go so far to call it a pestilence.

I don't see how anyone can look at the Middle East (and not just today but for the last several centuries) and see anything but a rotting pestilence of religion doing things like killing woman who don't dress properly.

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Maybe, without religion, humanity would forget spirituality

I doubt this. The world and this forum is full of spiritual people who reject religion. Count me among them. When I study nature, I'm always moved spiritually by it's power and beauty. But I don't make war on my neighbors to force-feed them what I've learned. That's the difference between spirituality and religion.

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So let's slow them to make them understand, bridge, research, explain and solve their differences and from those resolving hostilities.

How can this ever happen? Even here on Shroomery where so many consider themselves enlightened, we've had to separate the Spirituality forum from the Religion forum to keep the religious people satisfied. The spiritual never had a problem with a single forum.

The spiritual open their ideas to the purification and refinement of analysis in an attempt to converge on Truth and cull away what analysis reveals doesn't make sense. But the members of the religion forum, like those who imprisoned Galileo, insist their ideas are correct and refuse to analyze them even if, like the sun revolving around the Earth, they make no sense in the light of the evidence. They just believe and get upset with anyone who points out a flaw in their belief. The Catholics got upset and imprisoned poor old Galileo for doing the same thing.

And religious bigotry continues as always, even here...

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ReoSpeedwagon153 said:

The pyramids weren't built by slaves. I was of the opinion that that theory has been largely discredited. It was the egyptians themselves, driven by their beliefs, and possibly paid for their work.

I have to to my slave labor now, or I would refute more of your arguments.

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ReoSpeedwagon153 said:

The pyramids weren't built by slaves. I was of the opinion that that theory has been largely discredited. It was the egyptians themselves, driven by their beliefs, and possibly paid for their work.

I have to to my slave labor now, or I would refute more of your arguments.

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