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Originally Posted by MH
Yes it is as there are no secular people who thing that they got it right.
Exploitation is as old as humans and has nothing to do with religion but religion or any other system is used for it.
Secular think that have the recipe for well being of whole human race.
Where fighting religion by all means is part of solution.
I have religious friends with whom i disagree on many issues...but on basic fundamental level they are as ethical as any one else.
In many cases they are much less self centered and selfish than secular people.
Religion taken to extreme mixed with politics is a problem.
Secular extremism is intolerant as well.
Just in Judaism you have extreme rabbis liberal rabbis ....so so rabbis.
Just on this forum you can find nazi christians,christians and secular nazis...go figure.
Again maybe living in Jerusalem made me relatively tolerant....to multiculturalism with all it problems....but i prefer that to some uniform zombie society.
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I never said that secular groups necessarily have it better, any group can form dogmatic views, and do the exact same stuff.
Personally I believe in skepticism, as it is something that keeps one humble. As a skeptic you do not have any answers, and do not believe to firmly in anything. You can also be religious or spiritual, and also a skeptic too.
P.S. as for the Nazi's, they were working on their own organized religious system within the SS to replace Christianity, based on the older Germanic traditions. They were not secular by any means. Many Neo-Nazi groups are following in those footsteps (or have converted Naziism into a religion itself).
As for ethics, frankly I think it depends on the individual themselves, and not the religion or lack their of that they were raised under. The only argument I see is that perhaps secularism attracts more of that type of person. Assuming the initial study was valid of course (I haven't bothered reading it as honestly I could care less).