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Originally Posted by Castout
The most dangerous religion is having none.
The second most dangerous religion is making money one.
People with no religion cannot stand on any principle. And people with religion who are too afraid to stand on their principle are not religious people.
People with money think they are religion unto themselves.
That is what I call dangerous.
My 2 cents
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Ironically, Castout you appear display some of the very characteristics that make some people with a religon (theistic or secular) very dangerous. Besides some of your points don't make much sense.
Steve, I agree with much of what you say; Its a lack of moral uncertainty on the part of the follower that is dangerous; the belief in absolute truth or right without at any point questioning their belief system or contemplating the real posibility that they may be wrong, even when elements of their own philosophy sometimes contradict their actions; for example every major religon exhorts its followers not to kill yet this has not prevented countless people being killed in the name of those same religons.
This kind of thinking can be seen in the medieval Christian crusader, in the Islamic suicide bomber, in the Stalinist Commissar or the Nazi Einsatzgruppen to give just a few examples.
BTW Subman, nice to see you using a nice unbiased source for that article.
I think saying that environmentalism is the most dangerous religon in the world is taking the argument a tad too far, what Greenpeace has done on this occasion is pretty small fry. I don't doubt that there are extremists but how many people have Greenpeace killed so far?